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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…]

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…]

Celebrating The World’s Longest Serving Monarch

13th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The recent Jubilee bank holiday weekend provided an opportunity to pause for thought and consider the service rendered by the world’s oldest and longest-serving monarch and head of state. No, not her. She gets enough [more…]

The Lady War Correspondent

8th June 2022 Going Postal 0

Your author has enjoyed the extracts posted recently by GP from his uncle’s work, reflecting on older fashioned journalism. The extracts titled ‘The Lady Reporter’ and ‘The War Correspondent’ suggested this response. Imagine, if you [more…]

“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”

23rd February 2022 Going Postal 0

Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]

“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”

21st February 2022 Going Postal 0

As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]