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via notayesmanseconomics Over the past few days the media seems to have been catching up with a theme we have been running for some time.The Chinese export push. We can start with this at the weekend from the BBC economics editor Faisal Islam. As a Chinese made car hits number 1 in UK, and so …
via James Hickman Protestant firebrand and political activist Hugh Latimer must have known he was risking his life when he stepped into the pulpit at St. Paul’s Cross on January 12, 1549. His sermon that Sunday morning was hardly religious in nature. Rather, Latimer publicly expressed the view– the deep, deep frustration– that nearly all Englishmen …
One hundred years ago, across the world, people were falling asleep uncontrollably. Not from a hard day’s work or a late night, but a disease known as ‘sleepy sickness’. Victims fell into a slumber so deep that those who caught it often didn’t wake for weeks, or even months, at a time. It was also …