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Immigration, unemployment and publicity

3rd December 2025 Going Postal 0

When all else has failed, our great leaders and civil servants usually  revert to telling us we need immigrants to ‘do the jobs the British won’t do’ (even when those jobs were only advertised abroad, [more…]

Business

Facing Economic Reality – and its retribution

9th December 2024 Emile Woolf 0

The Department for Work & Pensions has recntly disclosed that six million adults were on out-of-work benefits just before Britain’s July election – the highest in 30 years. The recent tax rises that, both directly [more…]

America

Pennsylvania Legislators Want Higher Unemployment, Government Dependency, and Crime

26th June 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Last Tuesday, June 20th the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill to raise the Commonwealth’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026. Although the bill is unlikely to pass the Senate, it seems [more…]

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Economics

Growth is the antidote to stagnation – but it requires knowledge and leadership

30th January 2023 Emile Woolf 0

By now even Treasury officials and central banks recognise that their practice of Quantitative Easing has run its course. In its contemporary form, QE began a dozen years ago as a temporary emergency measure enacted [more…]

Communism

Rainy Island gets Universal Basic Income

10th January 2023 Zombie Ramboz 0

Elias Jevola is momentarily distracted from the diversity and inclusion training on his computer screen as he gazes through the window beside his 42nd floor desk in the heart of the city’s central business district. [more…]

Arts

The Curious Tale of Colonel Ellis & the Christmas Oranges

20th December 2020 Going Postal 0

In 1908 Colonel William Verner Ellis (*) had long been retired from the British Indian Army and an adventurous & distinguished career playing “The Great Game”. His restless nature found him one grey winter’s day, [more…]

Joshua Dalton, Going Postal
Authoritarianism

Lockdown, what’s it all about?

14th October 2020 Going Postal 0

Coronavirus, Covid-19, the Wuhan wheezer, novel-Covid virus, China flu, the Xi JinPlague. Whatever title is preferred today, the global pandemic, which resembles nothing of the sort. Has grasped the world in fear, yet we all [more…]

Godfrey Bloom, Going Postal
20th Century

Roosevelt’s Disastrous New Deal

1st July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

Britain’s Keynesian press & public service broadcasters view President Roosevelt’s New Deal as something to ‘put on a pedestal’ (Guardian June27). Sadly the New Deal has gone into main stream academic & political economic archives [more…]

America

Government Shutdowns: Unconstitutional, Ineffective, and Immensely Destructive

7th April 2020 Patrick Barron 0

The Shutdowns Are Unconstitutional Our Constitution guarantees us certain rights that may not be abridged. The many government shutdown orders violate these rights. For this reason alone, the shutdown orders should be rescinded immediately. Furthermore, [more…]

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