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Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! (updated August 1st 2026)

Curteis jewellery replatingThe Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...


Burn’ems Russian Brexit Lie – The British version of the Russian Collusion Hoax.

  Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/burnhams-russian-brexit-lie   When Andy Burnham appeared on the The Rest is Politics podcast (broadcast on the 11th October) he engaged in one of those meta-narrative lies that is almost worthy of a Shakespearean villain. Burnham went on the show with two aims in mind, both of which were deeply undemocratic ones. Here is what his dual purpose …

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