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Land Grab or Business as Usual?

16th January 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

A early as 2019, President Donald Trump made headlines by suggesting that the United States should consider buying Greenland from Denmark, a proposal that immediately sparked debate and international attention. While the idea seemed unusual [more…]

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Railway Review

3rd January 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Following the outpouring of joy over the street cars of Paramaribo – complete with a trip to Kabelstation (where a rope-worked gondola spanned the Suriname River), and a railcar ride with the Queen of Holland, [more…]

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Bastiat’s enduring legacy

21st October 2025 Going Postal 0

Frédéric Bastiat, the 19th-century French economist and philosopher, is best known for his defense of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government, and his ideas, especially at the time he conceived them were as profound [more…]

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Who were the Whigs?

7th October 2025 Going Postal 0

We are all familiar with the saying that ‘Britain basically has a two-party system’, an aphorism which until recently seemed to be so obvious as to hardly need saying. Incredibly, it now seems we may [more…]

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Today’s 200th Anniversary of The Railway

27th September 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

This weekend sees the 200th anniversary of railways – or at least of the first steam locomotive-hauled passenger service, which took place on the Stockton to Darlington railway 200 years ago today (27th September). On [more…]

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Stories from the Age of Sail

22nd September 2025 Going Postal 0

I was going to call this article ‘Wooden Ships and Iron Men’ but then I discovered that Avalon Hill beat me to it about fifty years ago, so ‘Stories from the Age of Sail’ will [more…]

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Peter Mandelson – Something In The Genes?

19th September 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Speaking at the launch of his memoir The Third Man, Life at The Heart of New Labour, which he only finished writing two weeks earlier, Peter Mandelson said, ‘It was a high wire act. Now [more…]

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The Shock of The Modern

13th September 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Besides excitement and trauma, might the shock of the new also provide a synapse re-ordering adrenaline burst that remodels the brain? As a little boy the make-believe near-future modernist world of Thunderbirds (and the like) [more…]

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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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