Broad Oak Magazine

From ChinaSMACK : We Must Sternly Repress Counter-Revolutionaries (1951) 前三十年毛把中国弄成了人间地狱，后三十年拔乱返正，逐步走上正轨和理性！ The first 30 years tu...

photo: H M Cotterill, 2007 By the time I had parked in St Giles and collected my room key from the girl in the College porters' office,...

Reading SAS stories, I often come across the nickname "green slime" for the Army Intelligence Corps. I'd hazily thought it was...

Once a year, the Tregothnan Estate near Truro, Cornwall, opens its gardens to the public. Aside from being being a botanical safe haven for...

The global financial crisis is also a local issue for the UK, dubbed the 'global capital of money-laundering' in a Private Eye maga...

Karl Denninger looks at recently-failed US banks and by comparing their asset valuations with losses charged to the Federal Deposit Insuranc...

Reportedly, China has radically reduced its holdings of US Treasury securities; actually, the truth may be exactly the opposite - see my pos...

The following extract has been taken from news agencies, though Internet reception is currently poor on account of flooding and there may ha...

Following the Czech ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, there's excitement over the widened split in the Conservative Party and the possi...

In Britain, there are 28.89 million employed - 72.5% of the "people of working age"; median earnings approach £25,000 . In China, ...

It's reported in the Press that UK national debt will reach c. £1 trillion by the end of the year, and when the Office of National Stati...

Reading around in the wisdom of others, I predicted Dow 9,000 here , here and here . Now it's happened. Good for you day-traders, but a...

The dethroning of the US dollar as the international trading currency is under way. New bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund in t...

Jesse: ... the governance of Britain which as we have said is semi-feudal, ruled by a few corporations and the wealthy elite in partnership ...

Justice Litle thinks so. Beg to differ on one point: If the Brown government fails, Britain will be left rudderless in the midst of the wors...

Scott Burns at MSN Money ( htp: Michael Panzner ) calculates that unfunded government programs for social security and Medicare ($46 trilli...

We are now getting used to hearing that the UK is the worst-placed among the G20 countries to recover from the credit crunch. One reason is ...

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Fraser Nelson in the Spectator : To comprehend the scale of the sickening task awaiting George Osborne if he becomes chancellor, consider th...