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Grid Girl Gone

Posted on February 3, 2018 by

Following on from the walk-on girls a couple of days back, F1 grid girls are being eliminated too: Formula One grid girl Giorgia Davies has hit back at the so-called feminists who lobbied the motorsports industry to scrap her job, telling them … Continue reading →

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Living In A Time Of Madness

Posted on February 1, 2018 by

I’ve been toying for the past few days with a new twist to Idle Theory. In Idle Theory there are two states – busy and idle – which all living things (humans included) alternate between. And in Idle Theory economic … Continue reading →

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Plus ça change

Posted on January 23, 2018 by

There was a debate in the UK parliament on the EU Withdrawal Bill yesterday. During it one of the MPs fell asleep, it seems. It summed it all up nicely. And that’s the only thing that seems to have been … Continue reading →

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The Chain

Posted on January 15, 2018 by

I’m still trying to get my head around something I read a day or two back. “Chain migration” definition: Chain migration is a term used by demographers since the 1960s to refer to the social process by which immigrants from a particular … Continue reading →

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Mirror Images

Posted on December 29, 2017 by

Via a comment by Smoking Lamp, this report: One of the most notable legal changes in the Czech Republic this year has been a ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants that entered force before the summer. However a new … Continue reading →

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Nomads and Settlers

Posted on December 23, 2017 by

Immigration – or migration – has become a problem in Europe and America in recent years, as millions of people have begun migrating from Africa and the Middle East to Europe, and from South America to North America. And so … Continue reading →

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Growth, Climax, Decay, Collapse

Posted on December 9, 2017 by

I was thinking this morning about the various new political organisations that have appeared over the past 70 years or so (i.e. over my lifetime). The UN, the EU, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam, and the like come to … Continue reading →

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