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First off let me be wish you a very Happy New Year, and hopefully you are well rested after the festive break if a little bit sad like me when looking at the scales.  So now that the last of t…

Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash So, we are finally here, the home strait of 2025.  I am followed wherever I go by Noddy Holder belting out his festive classic ­— like the modern the Ghost of…

Photo by Ruvim Noga on Unsplash As October fades and clocks go back the nights grow dark and the first taste of winter is on the winds. For those of us in the UK this now means the supermarkets and…

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash Velcome! Sorry about the lack of posts I’ve had a busy Summer, a combination of relaxing and catching up on reading.  So I thought I would catch you up on my key hig…

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Photo by Liana Mikah on Unsplash “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is d…

We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...

Photo by Krisztian Tabori on Unsplash As spring moves into its finale and with summer verging on the horizon, its time to enjoy the longer days and balmy evenings.  But in the world the storm …

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Photo by Wu Zhongyi on Unsplash To quote Vladimir Lenin “There are decades where nothing happens; and then there are weeks where decades happen”.  Future books will cite April 2025 as an example of…

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Photo by Anton Darius on Unsplash “March comes in like a lion, and out like a lamb” is the usual proverb used to describe the weather.  And in the past few days here in the UK it has lived up to th…

And now for something completely different! The greatest living eccentric, Professor Elemental brings his insane show to Temperance

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With end end of February the seasons turn towards Spring. So, February was another interesting month, a lot happened.  The markets have turned into an interesting place as after people have claimed…

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Finally! So that was January, everyone is now able to go to the pub again now.  It began with indices in the UK and the US making back the losses suffered after the failed Santa Rally only to …

Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash 2024 In Review 2024 was the year that inflation seemed to be bested with the major economies managing to get inflation to return to or near to target. It was also …

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Photo by Warren Tobias on Unsplash Gunpowder treason and plot. Yes it’s that time of year when the UK celebrates the attempted assasination of the King and destruction Parliament, and the US …