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We have all been had
The scam continues. I have posted this graph in the comments but seeing as no c— reads them I thought I might do an article but no c— reads them either. The graph shows the [more…]
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Europeans obviously value freedom more than us!
‘There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.’ ~ Leo Tolstoy ~ Once again Europeans in many major cities came out in the tens of thousands this past weekend, as also [more…]
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Frankenstein’s Party
T’was 2019, mid July The whole nation was a’ high With anger and rage For their failed paige Do it all May! Just go away! Could not please every geezer, The treacherous Theresa But big [more…]
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Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth, Part 2
It’s late June 2021; I have a brief face-to-face encounter with former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption, at the Chalke Farm History Festival, near Salisbury, Wiltshire. He is there to promote his latest work, [more…]
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Divide & Conquer
The British have punched above their weight for three hundred years, economically, militarily, socially & geo politically culminating at the end of the 19th Century with the greatest empire the world has ever seen. It [more…]
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Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth
Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast. There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more…]
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Denying Reality Leads to Tyranny and Societal Failure
The common thread that connects failed societies, from Weimar Germany to the Soviet Union, is an almost pathological insistence on denying reality. Weimar Germany denied that masses of printed money would destroy civilized society. The [more…]
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A Rights and Logic Based Approach to Pandemics
We all are too familiar with the approach to pandemics taken by governments at all levels in the US. In the name of “public safety” governments assumed “emergency powers” to restrict the citizens’ right to [more…]
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Return to HMP UK
Kafka’s Joseph K did not know what his crime was. Dr and Prof K do. They had the audacity to travel to a foreign country for compassionate reasons. Getting to said foreign country was easy [more…]