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Nostalgia Album, Family Pilgrimage

13th August 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Barcelona At the end of the last episode of Nostalgia Album I referenced a very important mission. Despite all this talk of the 1950s, a family obligation could be carried out in modern-day Spain. Did [more…]

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The EU is Doomed, Part Four

30th October 2017 Jonathon Davies 0

Problems between East and West When the Roman Empire fell in the west, what remained in the east carries on. To us it is commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, they called themselves Romans. It [more…]

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The EU is Doomed, Part Three

23rd October 2017 Jonathon Davies 0

Brexit Bryan Ward-Perkins’ The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2005) makes the point that constant invasions led to rebellions, as a measure of self-help to deal with the situation. This further depleted [more…]

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The EU is Doomed, Part Two

16th October 2017 Jonathon Davies 0

Invaders and immigration Peter Heather in The Fall of the Roman Empire (2005) lays the blame on failure to deal with external threats from the Persian Sassanid Empire in the East. Roman military misadventures in [more…]

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The EU is Doomed, Part One

9th October 2017 Jonathon Davies 0

Sack of Rome 410 A.D. Striking parallels can be seen between the later Roman Empire and the unwieldy behemoth of the EU. Both were Empires that sought to force hegemony over Europe, and extend their [more…]

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