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Month: July 2025

19th Century

Troublesome Afghanistan

18th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

My great-grandfather on my father’s mother’s side served in Afghanistan. Being hill, mountain and lake types, our local regiment, The Border Regiment, deployed to the disputed territory between that country and British India in the [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twenty

17th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie sat in her Crawley office and finished her breakfast bap, bought from the sandwich van. She enjoyed a sausage and fried egg bap and a large coffee on every visit to DKL; it was [more…]

Economics

Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?

17th July 2025 Patrick Barron 0

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS nations to [more…]

Literature

Postcard from Thailand Part I

16th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Planning   การวางแผน Neither the wife or I have ever been to Thailand, and it was one of our ‘bucket list’ of countries we’d like to go to; a visit to which was more likely to [more…]

Literature

The cult of victimhood

16th July 2025 Going Postal 0

It has recently emerged that Raynor Winn (NHRN), whose trip with her husband Moth (also NHRN) along the SW Coastal Path inspired her book ‘The Salt Path’ (followed by the film of the same name [more…]

Cycling

West Country Rides, Five

15th July 2025 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

20th Century

Kill not cure: the economic prescriptions that failed

15th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Introduction In my essay ‘From Socialism to Welfarism: the Betrayal of the Working Class’, I observed that the early socialist thinkers developed their ideas at the peak of the industrial revolution.  Socialist theory was therefore [more…]

Drinking

Cruising to the Canaries – Part Two

14th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Day 5 – Wednesday, Funchal, Madeira I awoke just after six; it was still dark, so turned over and went back to sleep for another forty minutes. This time it was grey and grotty, and [more…]

Communism

One out, all out – and none in

14th July 2025 well_chuffed 0

On Thursday Starmer was cock-a-hoop about his one in one out plan he conjured up with the frog president Micron. The diminutive Napoleon like figure was fresh from losing a court case where he had [more…]

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