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Postcard From Berlin, 1979

10th December 2020 Going Postal 3618 Comments

Back in the late 1970s, when we were both rising stars in IT in the Ministry of Defence, my friend was posted to Berlin to run the Army’s computer centre there. Being a good mate, [more…]

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A Barren Shore, Part Two

23rd October 2020 Going Postal 2241 Comments

An even greater slab of armour plate than the one we had stumbled across decades before, stood upright blankly showing its wounds, punched through and scored by shot, rusty red, the memorial to those Finns [more…]

20th Century

A Barren Shore, Part One

16th October 2020 Going Postal 2649 Comments

This is a personal memoir of several visits to the far north and going realisation of what had always been before my eyes, unseen and recognised. I am not an historian and certainly not of [more…]

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Hungary 1956; ‘Normalization’ in Budapest

23rd June 2020 Going Postal 4584 Comments

The crushing of the 1956 Hungarian uprising led to repercussions far beyond the borders of the country itself.  In its wake communist fellow travellers were forced to confront the grim realities of Soviet realpolitik, the [more…]

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Communist Flip Flops

22nd January 2020 well_chuffed 2301 Comments

The aspiration for this article is to enlighten some Puffins about the several about-turns the Communists were forced into before, during and after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enemies, [more…]

20th Century

The Marshall Plan

15th January 2020 well_chuffed 3731 Comments

Following on from the Morgenthau Plan, only partially and half-heartedly implemented, we come to the much better known Marshall Plan. This was named after General Marshall who at the time was the US Secretary of [more…]

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A Going Postal Christmas Carol: Miriam’s Shack

23rd December 2019 Going Postal 5589 Comments

If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with [more…]

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Fiat Money and Socialism

19th November 2019 Patrick Barron 2052 Comments

For some time now I have been mulling over the possible causes of what seems to be an increase in the desire for socialism among the young. For someone of my generation (an early post [more…]

20th Century

Tyler Gatewood Kent

9th October 2019 well_chuffed 4074 Comments

Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]

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