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Collapse won’t re-set Society, Part One

14th November 2023 Going Postal 2675 Comments

This morning, you opened your phone and started scrolling. Your screen presented you with the usual updates: the nth wave of covid, the seemingly endless tussle in Ukraine, and all the usual suspects in the [more…]

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Rise (& Fall) of Empire

8th November 2023 Going Postal 2008 Comments

As any fule kno, the word “imperialism” comes from the Latin word imperium. It refers to a nation or a state implanting its rule on other states, treating them as subordinates and in an inferior [more…]

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Debbie Harry

5th September 2023 Going Postal 1783 Comments

My admiration for Deborah Harry goes back some time. I first met her in 1999, and again this year, both times when she was travelling to/from Glastonbury.  For me, she was born to deliver the [more…]

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Steak à la carte

30th August 2023 Going Postal 2590 Comments

I set before the Puffinati assembled a little piece of nourishment backed up with some history. A story as to how a piece of steak came to be one of the most famous dishes in [more…]

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Shake A Spear(e)

29th June 2023 Going Postal 2449 Comments

William Shakespeare devised new words and countless plot tropes that still appear in everyday life. Famous quotes from his plays are easily recognisable; phrases like “To be or not to be,” “wherefore art thou, Romeo,” [more…]

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Furst amongst equals

19th April 2023 Going Postal 2245 Comments

There are spy novels…. & novels about spies. Fleming, Deighton & Le Carre definitely wrote the former (& in doing so laid bare their inner classist prejudices) , whilst Ambler, Greene, & Conrad constructed far [more…]

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What’s it all about, Part 2

5th April 2023 Going Postal 2488 Comments

“World bankers, by pulling a few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make or break entire economies. By controlling press releases of economic strategies that shape national trends, the power elite are [more…]

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What’s it all about, Part 1

29th March 2023 Going Postal 2331 Comments

OK Puffins Hands up those who think the “pandemic” was used as cover for a financial/energy crisis. Well, those 97% who’ve donned their tin foil hats & agreed with the premise might also ask themselves [more…]

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ABC

15th March 2023 Going Postal 2316 Comments

Some Puffins may have dim & distant memories of learning their ABCs by rote, both at home & at primary skool. Which is E X A C T L Y why they’re so confused & [more…]

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