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Civil Aviation
What I’ve always liked about civil aviation is its being so civil. Or at least it used to be until somethings abruptly changed, post 9/11. I remember a time when airfares where so frightfully expensive [more…]
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The Thorium Cycle, Part Three
As we’ve seen in the last chapter, there are two significant advantages of a molten salt reactor over the water boiling reactor range we have today: their fuel mix makes them inherently safer than water-cooled [more…]
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The Thorium Cycle, Part Two
A question you may be asking yourselves now is: if there is a commercially viable application of the Thorium cycle, why haven’t I heard of it before? Well, there is a very simple and obvious [more…]
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The Thorium Cycle, Part One
Rightly or wrongly, I consider myself to be a reasonably educated sort of fellow. But a few years ago, it struck me as rather odd that I had never heard of the Thorium cycle or [more…]
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Marx and Immigration
The Labour Party is currently led by Jeremy ‘Marxism is a philosophy for all time’ Corbyn, and John ‘Let me be straight with you, I am a Marxist’ McDonnell. Both are fanatically in favour of [more…]
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UK Since the Referendum-Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
(All data, graphs and figures from the Office for National Statistics. Available under the Open Government License.) Where to begin? The amount of disinformation before, during and after the referendum on EU membership has been [more…]
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Brexit Negotiations
We hear of the proposed £60 billion pay off to the EU. It grows everyday. The extraordinary aspect of this whole sorry affair is the complete lack of professionalism in theses negotiations. Possibly no surprise [more…]
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The Fiscal Gap, by Godfrey Bloom
I wonder what would happen if our bank manager called us in because he was worried about our spending. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of course has no bank manager in the way we do. [more…]
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The good ship “Fridericus Quartus”, Part Two
The good ship “Fru Alida” Even less well known than Denmark’s triangular trade is the history of Danes and Norwegians as victims of slavery. North African pirate raids were a problem that affected coastal communities [more…]
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We Must Restore Economic Growth
The UK is agonising over BREXIT, the debate drags on, the negotiations go nowhere, but we are addressing the wrong problem. Look at the numbers, forget the rhetoric. Small & medium size businesses account for [more…]
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The good ship “Fridericus Quartus”, Part One
Transatlantic slavery was ended in 1833 by Britain after a campaign by William Wilberforce. It is one of the key dates in British history, and Wilberforce is a name known to everyone. Britain may have [more…]