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The Unpleasant Truth About The 1941 Parachuting Of Rudolf Hess In England (II)
The Unpleasant Truth About The 1941 Parachuting Of Rudolf Hess In England (II) Part I The context A little context is mandatory to perfectly define the message that Rudolf was carrying. The outstanding works of researchers such as Anthony Sutton and Charles Higham are critical in our understanding of the real historical context surrounding the […]
The Unpleasant Truth About The 1941 Parachuting Of Rudolf Hess In England (I)
The Unpleasant Truth About The 1941 Parachuting Of Rudolf Hess In England (I) Even though a vast majority of the population admits the saying that history is written by those who win the wars, most are unwilling to question its core and rather choose to accept that what they’re being told by their government controlled […]
What Else Canadians Should Be Sorry For — Besides Burning the White House
What Else Canadians Should Be Sorry For — Besides Burning the White House Six-years after the British landing at Jamestown, with the settlers struggling to survive and hardly managing to get their own local genocide underway, these new Virginians hired mercenaries to attack Acadia and (fail to) drive the French out of what they considered […]
Making Local Woods Work
Making Local Woods Work The Forestry Commission estimates that 47% of England’s woodlands are unmanaged. If you like to think of woods as wild places and flinch at the idea of a tree being felled, then you might consider this a good thing. But woodlands, at least in this country, need management. Whilst truly wild […]
Will England Break-Up Not Just the United Kingdom
Will England Break-Up Not Just the United Kingdom QUESTION: Hi Martin. In your recent blog posts, you talk about the possible timing of the break up of Britain but you talk about that in terms of the regionalisation or break up of England only. Have you not said before that Scotland is likely to become […]
Scarlet Fever Outbreak In England Leaves Researchers Confused: ‘We’re Concerned’
Scarlet Fever Outbreak In England Leaves Researchers Confused: ‘We’re Concerned’ Scarlet fever cases are now at 50-year-high sparking concerns for researchers, as they are baffled as to how “Victorian-era” diseases are making a comeback. The disease has been on the rise since 2014, and researchers are failing to find the cause. Scarlet fever hit its […]
England Inches Down the Road to Serfdom
England Inches Down the Road to Serfdom Hayek’s whole purpose in writing this chapter, “The Totalitarians in Our Midst,” serves as a warning to his readers. Hayek has spent the last few chapters of The Road to Serfdom explaining the roots and rise of totalitarian governments. In chapter twelve, Hayek highlighted prominent Marxist theorists who […]
The Empty Countryside
THE EMPTY COUNTRYSIDE I thought the sheep was dead. It was lying in the middle of a big grass field with its legs in the air. I wasn’t surprised; those fields are rented by a farmer who can’t afford to run his business in the way modern farming demands. He doesn’t own enough land to […]
UK’s European Future In Jeopardy: London Mayor Boris Johnson Will Campaign For Brexit
UK’s European Future In Jeopardy: London Mayor Boris Johnson Will Campaign For Brexit Yesterday, when we summarized the statements by UK politicians regarding the June 23 EU referendum, we said the one most important opinion has yet to come: that of London mayor Boris Johnson’s whose “opinion may sway the vote one way or another […]
We Know How This Ends, Part 2
We Know How This Ends, Part 2 In March 1969, while Buba was busy in the quicksand of its swaps and forward dollar interventions, Netherlands Bank (the Dutch central bank) had instructed commercial banks in Holland to pull back funds from the eurodollar market in order to bring up their liquidity positions which had dwindled […]
We Know How This Ends, Part 1
We Know How This Ends, Part 1 The finance ministers and representatives of central banks from the world’s ten largest “capitalist” economies gathered in Bonn, West Germany on November 20, 1968. The global financial system was then enthralled by a third major currency crisis of the past year or so and there was great angst […]
Who May Use the King’s Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time
Who May Use the King’s Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time The relationship between law and the commons is very much on my mind these days. I recently posted a four-part serialization of my strategy memo, “Reinventing Law for the Commons.” The following public talk, which I gave at […]
Happy Birthday Magna Carta
Happy Birthday Magna Carta Monday, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. In his book, Magna Carta, J.C. Holt, professor of medieval history, University of Cambridge, notes that three of the chapters of this ancient document still stand on the English Stature Book and that so much of what survives of the Great […]
Fracking set to be banned from 40% of England’s shale areas
Fracking set to be banned from 40% of England’s shale areas Guardian analysis reveals new rules agreed by government will make huge swath of protected areas off limits for shale gas exploration Fracking is set to be banned on two-fifths of the land in England being offered for shale gas exploration by the government, according […]
