Saturday, 7 June 2008

What If Prussia Had Been Annihilated In 1759/60?

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My views on this topic can be found in my e-book ‘Down Other Tracks: Alternate Outcomes of the 19th Century’ by Alexander Rooksmoor.  ...
Friday, 6 June 2008

The US Empire Expands - 19th Century Imperialism Lives On

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Just when I thought we were beginning to witness a bit of maturity in US politics with the primaries for the Democratic candidate which seem...
Wednesday, 4 June 2008

The Strange Death of eBay

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Though there are millions of websites there are names on the internet which stick out, things like Hotmail, Google, Amazon, YouTube, ITunes,...
Monday, 2 June 2008

The Privileged Strike Back

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I have often commented that the UK seems to becoming a more divided society. In the period after the Second World War, there was a sense tha...
Monday, 26 May 2008

Hostility to Wind Turbines: Why?

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I have seen hostility to the introduction of wind turbines in two locations recently: on posters in a Hertfordshire village and then in a co...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008

I am the Final Person in My Family Ever to Go to University

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I was trying to think of a clear title, what this is about is not the unlikelihood that I would have ever gone to university but the fact th...
Monday, 19 May 2008

I Now Pronounce You Inadvertent Husband and Wife

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I was reading today on the BBC website, that 70% of people aged 20-35 and 79% of people living together hoped to get married. Despite social...