Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-Three
There was an email waiting for him when he returned, a meeting place had been agreed, it was to be at The Oval cricket ground. The message said it had been booked for the entire [more…]
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Economics
Will Artificial Intelligence Finally Make Central Planning Work?
In the early 1970s, Chile attempted an ambitious experiment in economic planning. The country’s socialist government invited British cybernetician Stafford Beer to help design a computerised system capable of coordinating the entire national economy. The [more…]
Economics
Gold amid the slow unravelling
The recent reaction in the gold market to the September US inflation data offers a textbook illustration of how short-term speculative noise can obscure and distort longer-term realities. After the CPI print showed a 0.6% [more…]
Arts
The Christmas 2026 Competition
Same rules as the Summer competition except fabulous Christmas prizes: 1st £150 2nd £100 3rd £50 All qualifying articles to be submitted by the middle of middle of November and once the last entry is [more…]
America
Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 8)
George Soros was no mere speculator; he was a master of calculated risk, navigating the labyrinth of markets with a precision that belied his professed indifference to mathematics. His grasp of financial mechanisms surpassed that [more…]
19th Century
Frederick Pybus: the surgeon behind Lucozade
If you were ever handed a bottle of Lucozade when ill as a child, you can trace the origins of this back to a Stockton-born surgeon, a baby who died on his ward in 1908, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Six
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It was grey, grotty, misty and chilly this morning when I went out. The bad news was that the RNLI landed another 120 illegal immigrants yesterday evening, bringing the [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-Two
Sally found Dave sleeping on a sofa upstairs, she gently woke him. “Time to go, everything is done, you can start again in the morning.” There was a nod from the porters as they walked [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Damn Good Spanking
Welcome back, my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly presents yet another march of the Muscle Marys up the salubrious passage of contemporary culture. Tonight, dear reader, we shall [more…]