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The Gall of the Preservationist Crowd Knows No (Visual) Limits

13th August 2026 Patrick Barron 0

My wife and I recently took a four day road trip to the Hudson, New York area to see some gardens and a couple preserved homes. We stayed the first night in quaint Hudson, NY, [more…]

20th Century

Walking in Memphis

12th August 2026 Going Postal 0

I guess you know this is a song. The Cher version is crap but Marc Cohn’s one in the early 90s was great Anyone who has heard of, let alone been, to Memphis will associate [more…]

Economics

Bonds and how they work

12th August 2026 Going Postal 0

This is likely to be very boring, but I’m going to try to explain how the bond market works and why so much attention is paid to the 10 year gilt level. Initial primer Bonds [more…]

21st Century

Postcard from Mumbai

11th August 2026 Going Postal 0

After a long, hot site visit in Panoli, a small industrial town in Gujarat, the traffic on the main Ahmedabad to Mumbai highway was even more hideous than usual.    It was the last day of [more…]

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Miatta Fahnbulleh

11th August 2026 Going Postal 0

Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing [more…]

18th Century

Nicholas Wood: The man who wrote the book on railways

10th August 2026 Going Postal 0

He taught Robert Stephenson his trade, judged the Rainhill Trials, and wrote the first proper book on railways, the one that engineers across the world actually used. Not all of us can be gallivanting around [more…]

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Ordo ab Chao

10th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

Ordo ab Chao, the motto of the 33rd degree of Freemasonry, is the art of bringing order from chaos. The connection will become clear pretty soon in the article. Of course if the Hackney Abacus [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Six

9th August 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers, and welcome to another week of “stuff” from your intrepid cat reporter. The sun was back to being rather warm again this morning, and I hear another heatwave is [more…]

Going Postal

Marking Your Homework

8th August 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Rules Pay attention, Puffins! Your last homework entries were excellent — well done. Now it’s time for the next challenge. Before you put pen to paper (or rather fingers to keyboard), here’s a reminder of [more…]

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