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Month: October 2024

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Jinnies Story – Book Seven, Chapter Nineteen

31st October 2024 Going Postal 2260 Comments

The morning flight from Barbados to Antigua touched down a few minutes early having benefited from a tailwind. The only luggage that Jinnie, Trevor, Belinda and Brian had was Belinda’s trusty attaché case containing her [more…]

America

Why Does Government Always Make the Same Economic Mistakes?

31st October 2024 Patrick Barron 2625 Comments

Most economic analysts predict that the US is about to enter into a cyclical recession. Even Austrian School economists, like me, agree. The big question is “What will government do?”. Will it finally stop its [more…]

20th Century

The Venona Project, Part Two

30th October 2024 well_chuffed 2402 Comments

The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]

Authoritarianism

The Problem Is Systemic

30th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 3636 Comments

October 15, 2024 If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse Kenya, only [more…]

20th Century

Close Approach of Mars to Earth

29th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 2473 Comments

In September 1956, as Mars approached its closest to Earth for 34 years, John Alldridge summed up what we then knew (or thought we knew) of the planet for the Manchester Evening News – Jerry [more…]

Business

Ensh*tification of The Internet

29th October 2024 Going Postal 3279 Comments

I’ve just finished the first in a series of articles relating to the privacy and security of your electronic life. This has led me down some rabbit holes that are very worrying. Seriously scary. One [more…]

Fiction

A Glancing Blow

28th October 2024 Going Postal 2247 Comments

It was the Dean’s Verger who brought the note up to the organ-loft. The Cathedral bells had been clanging and humming through several hundred changes for at least half an hour, and were beginning to [more…]

18th Century

Slavery

28th October 2024 well_chuffed 2962 Comments

It is reasonably well known that the UK abolished the Slave Trade in 1807 and created the West Africa Squadron in an attempt to suppress said trade worldwide. For this we are vilified these days [more…]

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Five

27th October 2024 Going Postal 2432 Comments

I have been mostly impressed with the Welsh NHS, dentistry provision less so. Got a doctor’s appointment within two days last week, none of this telephone queueing/go online bollox. I simply asked the receptionist to [more…]

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