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Month: August 2023

13th Century

Magna Carta – Did She Die in Vain?

17th August 2023 Going Postal 0

Translation of the full text of the original 1215 edition of Magna Carta from Latin into modern day English. Which clauses were later omitted and which are still valid today? Notes on the English translation [more…]

19th Century

Intrigue at The Parsonage

16th August 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

This humble author takes no pleasure in relating to Puffins the following tragic tale from the history of his own Debatable Lands, unearthed while researching his family tree. In the never-ending side-shifting quicksands of genealogical [more…]

21st Century

Maandamano II: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

16th August 2023 Going Postal 0

11 August 2023 The last month or so has been dramatic in the non-existent Kenyan corridors of power because of the controversial Finance Act, 2023. It is not only one of the first major laws [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Cultural…..Innit?

15th August 2023 Colin Cross 0

The weather maps glow red to black, yet here in my little corner of North West England the wet summer days blend, almost seamlessly, into each other. At least there’s plenty of grass for my [more…]

Health

Time to say goodbye to the NHS

15th August 2023 Going Postal 0

Our Story I write this as a person rather than one of my OTF articles.  I feel compelled to write it after our recent experience with the NHS. Some of you know whereabouts I live [more…]

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Book Review: Across Atlantic Ice: the origin of America’s Clovis culture

14th August 2023 Going Postal 0

Half an academic dry tome and half one of the most exciting books I’ve ever read, this book lays out the evidence for what is known as ‘the Solutrean hypothesis’. It’s basically trying to answer [more…]

Capitalism

Testing the Socialist hypothesis

14th August 2023 Emile Woolf 0

Kristian Niemitz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, wrote a book last year that explores the reasons why the idea of socialism persists as a viable economic system. In “Socialism: the Failed [more…]

20th Century

The USA’s gradual slide into WW2

13th August 2023 well_chuffed 0

Conventional wisdom has it that prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the USA was sitting pretty and ignoring what was going on in the world. To an isolationist American public this was exactly [more…]

Animals

Larrys Diary – Week One Hundred And Ninety-Eight

13th August 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday Hello everyone for favourite cat reporter here ready to bring you all the news and rumours I hear in the corridors of power. This morning I had my normal trip down to the bottom [more…]

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