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What Greenhouse; The State Of The Nation…Innit

9th December 2025 Colin Cross 0

The recovery continues apace. As I sit writing this missive, I’m six weeks in and although the stairs continue to present something of a challenge and I’m still using a stick I feel that I’m [more…]

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The delusion of job creation

5th March 2025 Emile Woolf 0

I have been diverted from writing further essays in the Economic Perspectives series as I am assembling the existing essays in a book designed to demystify the science of economics. But occasionally the temptation to [more…]

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A New Dark Age, Part Two

20th January 2025 Godfrey Bloom 0

A couple of years ago Going Postal were kind enough to publish My article A New Dark Age. Things were bad then & I knew they would get worse. What I didn’t know was how [more…]

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Gizza job. I could do that

16th March 2022 Going Postal 0

As regular non-readers of the comments will know, I spent a large part of 2020 (and some of 2019) looking for a job. Looking back at my spreadsheet I made approaching 60 applications, albeit quite [more…]

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Black Americans left behind under Biden

11th September 2021 Fred Brownbill 0

Under President Trumps 4 year term, he concentrated on jobs. Heck -he concentrated on making everything in and about America Great Again. Jobs for all Americans, regardless of color, creed, religion or sexual orientation. He [more…]

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Can lost production ever be recovered?

13th April 2020 Emile Woolf 0

It’s easy to blame Covid-19 virus for the nation’s woes and, up to a point, that’s understandable. People who focus exclusively on the nation’s health tend to pay less attention to the economic damage wrought [more…]

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Worst first day

20th March 2020 Going Postal 0

Firstly JGM2 this was going to be a reply to you but upon its length I decided to submit it for an article: I got a new job as a van driver, large firm based [more…]

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Temporary Jobs

22nd August 2019 Going Postal 0

I was saddened to learn that Richard Williams has died. He was the Richard Williams of Cartoons. Proper real cartoons with animators drawing the sequences on celluloid just like the Disney bods did back in [more…]

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