Monthly Archives: November 2013

Prison for profiteers as prices plummet

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  20 November 2013 Exemplary news from Bolivarian socialist Venezuela. The government has just jailed 100 businessmen … Continue reading

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Off message

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  19 November 2013 If there is a message, I want to be off it. Characteristically dissident … Continue reading

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Art and Aid

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  18 November 2013 The art market has shot off the radar. Stratospheric prices are being paid … Continue reading

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Land of opportunity

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  17 November 2013 If you are black or Asian or belong to an ethnic minority in … Continue reading

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Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

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Lost

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  15 November 2013 I AM IN MARKET HARBOROUGH. WHERE OUGHT I TO BE? This is the … Continue reading

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The Patriot Game

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The Patriot Game (I)

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  13 November 2013            Vitaï Lampada There’s a breathless hush in the Close tonight – … Continue reading

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Uncle Sam and the heffalumps

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  12 November 2013 Nearly 100 African elephants are killed for their tusks every day [by poachers] … Continue reading

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The Times They Are a-Changin’

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  11 November 2013 THE BOOT IS ON THE OTHER FOOT In the 1930s victims of Nazi … Continue reading

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