Monthly Archives: January 2017

The Frasier Show Remembered

Posted on January 31, 2017 by odeboyz

  Frasier Crane: Now where was I? Niles Crane: You were last seen climbing Mount Ego. Chris  

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Worrying Shadow Hanging Over the World

Posted on January 31, 2017 by odeboyz

A self-obsessed egotist Struts menacingly His opinions, sadly listened to By small minded cowards Who feel their land Is under threat by immigration. Poor, desperate people Who flee from war and persecution. Such a powerful man Without remorse or pity … Continue reading →

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The Ricardian Curse, Margaret Thatcher and North Sea Oil

Posted on January 27, 2017 by odeboyz

Introduction Liz Truss hero worships Margaret Thatcher and emulated her when she too became prime minister in September 2022. Truss wrecked the UK economy in 48 hours of economic insanity. Margaret Thatcher wrecked the UK economy over a much longer … Continue reading →

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The women of Paris during the battle of Verdun 1916*

Posted on January 24, 2017 by odeboyz

As if by the germination of a tiny quantity of yeast, apparently of spontaneous generation, young women now went about all day with tall cylindrical turbans on their heads, as a contemporary of Mme Tallien’s might have done, and from … Continue reading →

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Is Theresa May a Conservative?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by odeboyz

Michael Oakeshott wrote: To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, … Continue reading →

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Trump Praises San Bernardino Couple

Posted on January 24, 2017 by odeboyz

Donald Trump has praised the San Bernardino couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malaki, for integrating fully into American society. “When I hear how a Muslim couple carried out a mass shooting with the enormous cache of weapons and ammunition … Continue reading →

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On the Occasion of the inauguration of Donald J Trump

Posted on January 20, 2017 by odeboyz

“Gödel’s* logical rigour caused problems outside academia, too. While studying for his American citizenship assessment in 1948, he told his sponsor Oskar Morgenstein that he’d spotted some inconsistencies in the US Constitution. According to Godel the contradictions created a legal … Continue reading →

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The 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act

Posted on January 19, 2017 by odeboyz

Some readers of the blogs I post on these pages, might view my stories of “daring do” on building sites in my younger days as frivolous or even down-right stupid. To be honest, I would have to agree. I was … Continue reading →

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Some things never change: Ancient Rome

Posted on January 17, 2017 by odeboyz

Promises will cost you nothing. Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned. Hope, if only she is duly fostered, holds out a long time. She’s a deceitful goddess, but a very useful one…. The really great problem, the problem that … Continue reading →

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Halcyon Days

Posted on January 16, 2017 by odeboyz

Most Sundays, Mum would cook lunch, we called it dinner She spent hours perfecting it I would stand by her side and marvel How such pleasure was choreographed. No fancy measures, no stress She would explain, “Yorkshire pudding” must be … Continue reading →

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