Tag Archives: politics

Who owns us?

Larry Ellson, 3 years older than me, seems to own my private data. Guess no-one bothered to ask me if I approved of that, but then, maybe to them, I am just a number: Cash-strapped NHS trusts hand former PM … Continue reading

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Alaska

From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading

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Unacceptable

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a severe public health concern, affecting roughly 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys worldwide (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021). As with other forms of abuse, CSA is characterized by the … Continue reading

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Iran’s dream of democracy once oil was discovered

This was the ceremonial and spiritual capital of a vast empire, built by Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, titans whose names still echo through history. Giant statues of winged bulls guard the Gate of All Nations, through which princes from vassal … Continue reading

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Eugenics

Nazeem Ahmed presents the history of Eugenics because this debunked concept has arisen as a weaponized tool to threaten the majority of the world’s population. Even before the emergence of Nazism as a dominant political force in Germany, the United … Continue reading

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British Monarchs

Our country has been invaded and fought over since the Romans, like lands across the world, there have been many peoples who were conquered, made to live under some ruling empire. All empires ended. But the world has seen its … Continue reading

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Ultimate Sin

So now I’m reading ‘Burn Book’, by Kara Fisher. As I was passionate about computers in education back in 1981, this book has great resonance for me. Kara Fisher began as a journalist, intrigued by the young start-ups in Silicon … Continue reading

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A world not reliant on the dollar

I wrote a blog, 8 years ago, trying to understand the impact of the Romans on our evolving monetary, military and trading history. https://borderslynn.com/2017/07/16/from-roman-empire-to-the-new-world Now I’ve reached the modern day, and I’m now asking about the mysteries of the global … Continue reading

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Nader on War

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Adam Smith: Part X

My current Historic Scotland magazine made me aware of the Medieval torture practices which extended into the 1700s. It made me think that we can always, as humans, raise our intellectual understanding but never seem to leave go of the … Continue reading

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