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Month: February 2023

America

Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Four

6th February 2023 Going Postal 0

One of Say’s Laws holds that “we produce to consume”. This is certainly the underlying theme of the Industrial Revolution with its accompanying exponential growth in production of technology, communication, and energy utilization. While private [more…]

19th Century

The Wild West Trail, Part Ten

5th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Eleventh in a series by my uncle John Alldridge. This article first appeared in the Derby Evening Telegraph in February 1968 – Jerry F Nobody who caught the gold fever ever quite recovered from it. [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Seventy-Three

5th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone and welcome to another week in Number 10. I work up late this morning, I think I slept longer because I watched the football on the office TV in the afternoon [more…]

20th Century

Notables Indésirables En Route to Montreux

4th February 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

As we continue our clockwise drive around Lake Geneva our first and brief port of call is Lausanne, the capital and largest city in the French-speaking Swiss canton of Vaud. Lying at an elevation between [more…]

Literature

Riding the donkou through Japan

4th February 2023 Joe Slater 0

  When you read about Japanese trains, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the shinkansen, the world’s first bullet train and still a wonder to behold and to ride in. Or you [more…]

20th Century

My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Twenty – The Smiths – Morrissey

3rd February 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Twenty – Morrisey/Smiths After 60 proper legends of pop (OK, you may have thought that some were a bit iffy), it is now time for my Top [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

3rd February 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 2nd February 2023 The Panel: John Lamont (Conservative) Ian Murray (Labour) Jenny Gilruth (SNP) Ella Whelan (Journalist) India Willoughby (Broadcaster) Venue: Glasgow If Westminster is a village then I’m forced to concede to [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Four, Chapter Twenty-Nine

2nd February 2023 Going Postal 0

Jinnie was up early, she had fed and changed the twins who were now peacefully sleeping. She had also fed a persistent Larry and was wondering whether to return to bed to try to get [more…]

Business

The death of the middle class is the death of civil society

2nd February 2023 Going Postal 0

The middle class in the West has been shrinking for years, but after the covid crisis and especially after the inflation explosion, whatever was left of it is now basically under threat of extinction. This [more…]

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