The Paris Gun: Germany’s Infamous Artillery Weapon from World War I
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
50 Miles To Paris – Third Battle Of The Aisne I THE GREAT WAR Week 201
16 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Data mining by the woke
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in econometerics Tags: data mining, methodology of economics
Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Cold War, maps
Amnesty U.K. What’s going on?
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
Like many people I have ceased to donate to Amnesty following the revelation they took advice from Pimp Lobby groups before deciding to adopt the stance #SexWorkIsWork. The majority of the sold are women and the purchasers are, almost invariably, male no matter the sex of those being traded. A purported human rights organisation which prioritises male sexual entitlement over their victims is a Human Rights organisation only because they self-identify as such. 👇
You can read about this in full here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/22/pimp-amnesty-prostitution-policy-sex-trade-decriminalise-brothel-keepers
As if to remove all doubt about their anti-women stance Amnesty Ireland recently castigated women for defending their sex based rights. Below is an astonishing foray into the controversy of allowing men to self-identify as women. Women who point out the conflict with sex based rights are lazily conflated with far right organisations and, Amnesty argues, should be denied representation for these views.
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The Tudors: Mary I (1553-1558)
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The reign of Mary I is perhaps best summarized by Winston Churchill in his History of English Speaking Peoples: “The woman who now became Queen was probably the most unhappy and unsuccessful of England’s sovereigns… Mary had all the obstinacy of the Tudors and none of their political sense. She was now on the threshold of her dreams – a Catholic England united in intimate alliance with the Catholic Empire of the Hapsburgs” (257-258).
Mary was a sickly child but she was born into the prospect of one day becoming Queen. She was the first child to survive from Henry’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Those lofty hopes of succession were soon dashed when Henry voided his marriage to Catherine in 1533. At the time, various European princes had lined up as potential suitors for Mary, but they were immediately discarded when her mother’s marriage to Henry VIII ended…
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THE BORGIAS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY by G. J. Meyer
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
One of the most fascinating families in history are the Borjas/Borgias; a family that produced a series of controversial characters from Pope Alexander VI, Cesare, and Lucrezia. The story that encompasses the Spanish family that would dominate the Italian Renaissance is said to involve barbarity, rape, misinformation, political and religious machinations, and possibly incest. The questions surrounding the family have baffled historians for centuries and it appears that much of their reputation can fall into the category of myths. Historian, G. J. Meyer has taken on the task of unraveling these myths in his family biography, THE BORGIAS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY as he argues that the Borgia problem began in the early 16th century as Reformation propagandists depicted the papacy in less than positive terms and blamed the Borgias for every conceivable crime. Meyer’s approach is to ask, “long neglected questions” and a refusal to accept judgements…
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Voluntary assumption of risks to yourself and prevention of externalities
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, health economics, transport economics Tags: economics of pandemics, road safety
Russia & Greens jubilant: Boris Johnson considers ban on UK oil and gas exploration
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
North Sea oil platform [image credit: matchtech.com]
The UK is getting more like California every day in terms of an obsession with phony climate virtue signalling, with its drive to weaken the energy industry wealth creators and subsidise their so-called ‘renewable’ competitors.
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Ministers are considering declaring the beginning of the end for the North Sea oil industry with a ban on new exploration licences, says The Sunday Telegraph (via The GWPF).
The radical move is on the table as part of a decisive shift away from fossil fuels and as part of preparations for the crucial climate summit the Government is due to host in Glasgow in the autumn.
Britain is already legally bound to deliver “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050.
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor
15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Roman empire
Rationing in WWII (British Homefront)
14 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Invading the Soviet Union 1941 – Just Stupid? – Barbarossa without Hindsight
14 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Lost on the woke
14 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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