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{Herewith our Fifth Anniversary episode of this weekly series. Please enjoy responsibly…}Through the thick falling snow Addison trudged, not without difficulty, so deep was the fallen snow on the sidewalk. It was a shame he was not wearing stout knee-high Wellington boots such as his mother had outfitted him with as a child, no, alas, all he wore were the same old brogans he had acquired when he first went …

James Walvin’s book A World Transformed provides a wide overview of the transatlantic slave trade and of the nations that benefited from it. The scope of this book is massive Read more The post Derek G. Handley on James Walvin’s *A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and Origins of Global Power* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.

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These weekends creep up on you, hm? Besides a whole lot of snow and a surprising amount of jet lag there’s not much to talk about. I didn’t even get to consume a lot of media because I slept so much – the moment it gets dark out, I’m sleepy and oh boy, does that work well with winter. At least my Apple Health app keeps telling me I slept …

Fresh takes on classic tracks from Bauhaus, Kate Bush, Nine Inch Nails, and more. The post Run for cover: Synthpop cover songs of 2024 appeared first on Synthpop Fanatic.

New data suggests that one third of the farm estates affected by the Budget changes aren’t owned by farmers – they’re held by investors for tax planning purposes. This suggests the Budget proposal doesn’t go far enough to stop avoidance, but goes too far in how it applies to actual farms. There’s a better approach […] Source

As mentioned, I spent a couple of nights in beautiful Malvern – sadly I felt pretty ropey with a cold, but it didn’t stop me popping into the excellent Malvern Bookshop, and Amnesty secondhand bookshop and the Malvern Book Collective. For a small town, it is well-served with bookshops! On my way home, I stopped for chips in Tewkesbury and a pop-in to Cornell Books, which has a very well-selected …

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When one thinks of the paranormal, they imagine Duke University. But UCLA? Half a century ago, according to John Harlow, their paranormal department investigated a curious poltergeist case in Culver City. Just to drive the point home, it seems even the restless dead are not keen on Black Sabbath. Half a world away an Alleged Ghost Hunt At Abandoned Building Leads To Trespassing Arrest In Malaysia. Heed Tim Binnall's advice …

My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my physician was sick. I thought it would be fine to go a couple of weeks without, but my recovery from my alternate-day-exercise-routine worsened gradually until I had a POTS flareup. Just mere walking alone made my heart rate go up to 130s. This is highly disturbing for someone like me who can run 7km without …

On Friday, I finally crossed Rotherfield off from my list of pub places to visit. This followed one reconnaissance visit, whilst on the return journey of a bus trip to neighbouring Mayfield, and then a failed attempt, two weeks later as part of a CAMRA bus outing. The latter was the result of the dreaded, “essential” roadworks – notice how such disruptive activities are always “essential” but as I wrote …

The first priority of the UK’s recently-elected Labour government is to “secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.” Although economists did not talk of growth until after the Second World War, it quickly became the favoured panacea of politicians. If it can make “everyone, not just a few, better …

There is nothing more satisfying when the weather is cold than a good old curry. This one is a simple recipe that had ground pistachio nuts as one of the ingredients and me being a tight git, everyone of those pistachios that are eventually ground up were deshelled by your truly.A labour of love most certainly but this is one of the richest tasting curries I have in my homemade …

On the advice of his friend, Dr. John Silence (Malcolm Hayes), Stephen Hubbard (Fraser Kerr) heads off to Germany on a convalescent holiday to the monastery where he studied as a child only to discover things are very different from how he remembers.One of the more pulpy of the Silence stories this breathless adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's 'Secret Worship', one of his John Silence stories, was one of several made …

A recent paper on housing, written with Mariana Mazzucato, outlining some ‘home truths’ about homes, and exploring the human right to housing alongside the rights of the environmentAny of the numerous so-called ‘housing crises’, at least those littered across the countries of the Global North, cannot be solved simply through that bluntest of tools: mass home ownership, based on the house as a financial asset, delivered predominantly by the private …