Tag: history
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Will the Bank of England be the first to cut interest rates?
With inflation having rapidly fallen in the UK, it could be time for the Bank of England to reduce interest rates.
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The problem with Japan’s economy
With family values being jettisoned out of the window by so many cultures these days, Japan’s deflationary problems serve as a microcosm for what the risks of depopulation are. A serious decline in the number of babies being born in Japan has led to the situation, which we can now see its economy in. The…
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Education, Education, Education
I recently shared my thoughts on the declining education standards in Australia and New Zealand in a piece in The Spectator Australia. It seems to me that we have become distracted and moved away from the core subjects, including English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and Languages. Simply changing the emphasis and redirecting it back towards…
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Hard work! What is it?
Warning – irony and a brush of humour may be present in this piece, as it is in many a piece of literature, ancient and modern 🙂 Whilst hard work is certainly not a literary genre, we can certainly still look to literature and to history for examples of what it entails. Perhaps in today’s…
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What is parody and how can I appreciate it?
Parody is another style of writing invented by the Ancient Greeks. It is similar to satire, in the sense that it often involves irony. Ancient authors began parodying their predecessors by producing writing that was very similar in nature to their famous counterparts – such as Homer, the alleged inventor of the epic genre –…
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