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Feb 2019
10:26pm, 1 Feb 2019
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GlennR
Ooh.
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Feb 2019
3:33pm, 4 Feb 2019
40,661 posts
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GlennR
David Ricardo managed to write an analysis of cappuccino bars in train stations before either cappuccino bars or train stations existed. Harford, Tim. The Undercover Economist . Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition. |
Feb 2019
5:00pm, 4 Feb 2019
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Dvorak
That's remarkable. The first railway in Scotland was established in Prestonpans in 1722, some twenty-three years before the nearby Battle of Prestonpans. It supplied coal to the salt pans. (And therefore also very close to what will be a new parkrun, which should have started last Saturday.) |
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Feb 2019
9:26pm, 13 Feb 2019
40,848 posts
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GlennR
Orlando Bloom once enjoyed a brief moment of fame. In between playing a rent boy in Wilde (1997) and debasing himself in the children’s film series Lord of the Rings, he had a role in the Midsomer Murders episode Judgement Day. He lasted 15 minutes before being impailed on a pitchfork. “Skewered him like a spud on Guy Fawkes night”. |
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Feb 2019
9:28am, 14 Feb 2019
17,218 posts
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Dvorak
An interview on Radio5 with a British soldier who was a p.o.w. and found himself in Dresden during the firebombing. It was, as you would expect, an account of horror. There is a book, but I caught neither his full name nor the title. From 0430 this morning (140219) on Up All Night . |
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Feb 2019
5:39pm, 15 Feb 2019
40,895 posts
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GlennR
An excellent concise example of economic idiocy: continentaltelegraph.com |
Feb 2019
6:08pm, 15 Feb 2019
10,152 posts
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Cerrertonia
General lesson - free markets work except when the outcome needs to be rigged by politicians. See also the UK housing market, EU agriculture policy, or why the UK government privatised bus and trains decades ago everywhere except London, where we still need TFL to be subsidised and entirely run by the state because Londoners are much too important to put up with a third-rate transport system. |
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Feb 2019
6:29pm, 15 Feb 2019
40,897 posts
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GlennR
There was a comment piece in the Times the other day by a self-defined Brexit Bumpkin, sounding the alarm because British farmers would face tariffs of 50% plus when exporting meat to the EU after we leave. I wonder how many of those farmers complained about the arse-brained tariffs *before* the leave vote? |
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Feb 2019
7:07pm, 15 Feb 2019
17,223 posts
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Dvorak
I've been reading a cache of old newspapers (The Observer). Majoring on the Business section as they would be easiest to skim and chuck. In theory. As long as I get round to it, there is quite a bit of blog material. Plus ca change. (I could just chuck the lot, but hey, could be interesting. In fact, just reading a print newspaper, especially a large format one (and The Observer was a whopper) has been interesting. There is also a Sunday Post. Some of this, especially a key piece by Andy "Ally's Tartan Army" Cameron (centre page) is astonishing. In fact, I don't think that anywhere would publish the Andy Cameron piece as written now.) |
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Feb 2019
7:18pm, 15 Feb 2019
40,899 posts
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GlennR
Blog please Dvorak.
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