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Communism

Intentional Causes and Unintentional Effects

18th September 2023 Emile Woolf 0

Ursula Von der Leyen, Chief of the European Commission, complains bitterly that the Chinese are keeping the price of their electric cars artificially low by “giving their manufacturers huge state subsidies, and this is distorting [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and Three

17th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone, it’s rather nice this morning, warm and sunny. For once the forecasters have got it right. The idiot on the radio annoyed me this morning going on about the government’s ‘ban’ [more…]

19th Century

3 Grains of Death The New Opium Wars

8th August 2023 Going Postal 0

We are all aware daily of our ongoing “conflict” with our new chief “adversary” in the world, the Chinese Communist Party. Warnings about the need to increase defense spending to prepare for possible war with [more…]

Conservatives

Where Are We Now?

25th July 2023 Jonathon Davies 0

It’s been a while since I wrote anything for the blog for various reasons, but I was determined to, as the saying goes, squeeze one out. Last time I wrote I think Boris was PM [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Seventy-Six

26th February 2023 Going Postal 2

Monday Good morning everyone, and what a lovely morning, bright, sunny and not too cold. Maybe it’s because it’s half term down here in the south of England and the kids can go outside to [more…]

America

History does not repeat, but sometimes it rhymes

15th February 2023 Going Postal 1

Puffins of a certain age will recall that seminal moment in 1987 when Mathias Rust, a West German teenager, seemingly did the impossible when he flew a Cessna light aircraft through 500 miles of the [more…]

Authoritarianism

Year of the Rabbit

18th January 2023 Going Postal 2

When I first arrived in Hong Kong, many years ago, I bought a microwave grill for the new flat from Park and Shop, a big supermarket chain. Could it be delivered? “Yes, when do you [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Sixty

25th September 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks another week dawns and I am getting used to being left alone in the flat much of the time. At least I can pop down to the office if I get [more…]

America

China’s Machiavellian Virus

3rd August 2022 Going Postal 0

While the precise mechanisms resulting in the release of Covid 19 worldwide may never be publicly known, its deliberated impact on the developed economies of the West evoke all sorts of conspiratorial theories that generally [more…]

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