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“It’s for your own safety”

6th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Saddam Hussain Pol Pot Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Boris Johnson The more pedantic sections of our grand old society will point out that 2020 was not the start of a new decade, rather, the end [more…]

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Family Holiday Torture

3rd August 2020 Going Postal 0

Following on from Novak and Goode’s excellent postcard from Vilnius, I thought I’d share some photos of our trip there in October last year. I’ve been before as my mate married a Lithuanian girl and [more…]

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Balancing Disease & Cure – It’s Not Just the Virus

1st June 2020 Emile Woolf 0

In his latest book (“The Body – a Guide for Occupants”) Bill Bryson highlights the limitations on what money can buy. He points out, for example, that America spends more per capita on healthcare than [more…]

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A bird in a gilded cage

28th April 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

My lockdown is idyllic, I am one of the most fortunate people in England at the moment. We have a smallholding in the East Riding of Yorkshire, close to the river Derwent which is the border between [more…]

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