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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...


Old England was not something we “lost” – it was stolen from us. And the task of the next few generations will be to take it back.

Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/04/27/the-world-they-stole-from-us/ I suspect that most people living in England today would find it rather difficult to picture what life there would have been like before the so-called Industrial Revolution three centuries ago. The country was the first in the world to be industrialised, in a ghastly experiment later rolled out everywhere else, and we have little …

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