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Sunday, 27 November 2016

Stories of Resistance to the Holocaust

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Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi German state murdered 5.5 - 6 million Jews in occupied Europe, as well as another five million gentiles ...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Populations of Middle Earth - The Earliest History of the Elves

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I have an occasional series of posts that try to work out population estimates for periods of Tolkien's Middle Earth. I have the distant...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016

Populations of Middle Earth - How many fought at the Battle of Unnumbered Tears?

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The Battle of Unnumbered Tears, or Nirneath Arnoediad , was the climactic and most detailed battle of Tolkien's First Age of Middle Ear...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Populations of Middle Earth - The Isle of Numenor (through the 2nd Age)

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The population of Numenor was derived from the Three tribes of the Edain that dwelt in Beleriand before Morgoth overran the continent after...
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Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Robots stealing all the jobs? - Nationalisation is the Answer, not a Basic Income

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In the last year there has been increased discussion about introducing a 'Universal Basic Income' (or UBI ). A Universal Basic Inco...
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Sunday, 3 July 2016

Brexit, one week later.

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1. Initial signs of Economic Chaos were overblown. As of now the FTSE 100 has more than recovered all its losses, and the smaller FTSE 250...
Tuesday, 7 June 2016

The Future of Greater European Union

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I have very mixed feelings about the EU and the referendum on UK membership.  I feel that we don't really want 'In' or 'Out&...
Friday, 6 May 2016

We need a new Electoral System. And it should be AMS.

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After the AV referendum in 2011 a consensus formed that Electoral Reform is off the political table for a generation. I completely disagr...