The population of Shirehampton village in 1914 is not explicitly documented in available historical records. However, it is noted that in 1901, the parish had a population of 2,570. By 1921, the population had increased [more…]
On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told [more…]
So. Just to be (in the words of 2TierKeir) absolutely, crystal, clear……….. UsLabour has finally abandoned any pretense about “Stopping the Boats” or “Smashing the Gangs”. Such ‘policies’ have now been consigned to the spider infested, deep [more…]
The picture houses of the world are currently alive with Christopher Nolan’s cinematic offering of ‘The Odyssey’ – the ancient Greek epic, written by Homer in the eighth century BC, a story that continues to [more…]
In the early 1970s, Chile attempted an ambitious experiment in economic planning. The country’s socialist government invited British cybernetician Stafford Beer to help design a computerised system capable of coordinating the entire national economy. The [more…]
George Soros was no mere speculator; he was a master of calculated risk, navigating the labyrinth of markets with a precision that belied his professed indifference to mathematics. His grasp of financial mechanisms surpassed that [more…]
But what if the audacious wager on the British pound had spectacularly misfired? The $10 billion borrowed to fuel the bet would have demanded repayment, a burden falling squarely on Soros’s shoulders. Yet he dismissed [more…]
There is a particular species of man that history keeps breeding, the way a swamp keeps breeding mosquitoes — simply because the conditions are irresistible. He arrives at the tail end of an exhausted society, [more…]
In 1988, George Soros deftly manoeuvered through the stock holdings of Société Générale, France’s banking titan, executing trades that yielded a modest $2.2 million profit. The transaction, unremarkable at the time, scarcely rippled the financial [more…]
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