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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy-Four

30th March 2025 Going Postal 1986 Comments

Monday Good morning, folks. It’s been raining overnight and is still dull and cold. Legohead is not very happy today—he has just seen the results of the latest MRP poll on the local election, and [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Forty-Eight

8th September 2024 Going Postal 2451 Comments

Monday Good morning happy readers and it looks like it’s going to a nice week for the last week of the school holidays down here in the South. So Liebore said they were going to [more…]

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Ultra Vires

20th May 2024 Going Postal 2083 Comments

Back in the early 1990’s I was working for Girobank, at that time still part of the Post Office.  Looking back it was a really interesting place to work, still with many civil service customs.  [more…]

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Characteristics of Government Today

9th May 2023 Emile Woolf 2419 Comments

Two hundred years ago Lord Macauley wrote “the measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out”. This intriguing insight is as  true of [more…]

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A bank is a bank is a bank – Part II

27th April 2023 Going Postal 2639 Comments

A real systemic crisis If there was one thing more telling than the bank failures themselves, it was the governments’ reaction to them. The sheer panic that shook US, Swiss and Eurozone officials was almost pitiable [more…]

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A bank is a bank is a bank

24th April 2023 Going Postal 2890 Comments

It might sound like an old-fashioned notion, the sort of thing that one reads about in period novels and romantically sighs “oh, the good old days”. It might sound like old timely advice, perhaps of [more…]

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How to work out your interest yourself – and how the banks did it in the old days…

11th February 2023 Going Postal 2813 Comments

Have you ever wondered how the bank worked out how much interest to pay on your savings account, or charge you on your mortgage? I had a mortgage with a building society some years ago, [more…]

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OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Six

8th September 2022 Going Postal 5030 Comments

This has been written so much better in thousands of articles on the web (including GP). Wasn’t going to write this one but have included it for completeness. Very short and to the many points. [more…]

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Mutuals & Friendly Societies

16th May 2022 Godfrey Bloom 2988 Comments

I offer some additions to the excellent work by Pat Barron & Emile Woolf old libertarian comrades, also excellent work by Alasadair MacLeod of Gold Money on their platform. They are at the cutting edge [more…]

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