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Parliaments Different From Democracy

Democracies and one-party states. Europe’s mediaeval Parliaments were devised as a way of formalising the European notion that the king

Turning the Year. Christmas or Winter Solstice in a world very unlike our own. Mistcrap in Flipworld. Another Christmas, but

Problems 28: Asocialism: Part One; The Muon and the Green Great Dragon. Also available as a PDF, Problems 28 –

I have been doing a detailed reading for my local Tolkien group. We have done six chapters so far. I

Awed by the Amazing Twentieth? Is it unreasonable to ask people getting more than £80,000 a year to pay more

I’m working on a story, imagining an old Greek singer complaining about ‘Young Homer’ who has reinvented a fine old

Degraded Globalisation. What’s wrong with Neo-Liberalism, the dominant economics since the 1980s.

Why Profit Need Not Be Wealth-Creating. The flaw in Adam Smith’s arguments. How National Economies Really Grow. The alternative system

Doing a series of blogs on Quora about my holiday in China, see https://gwydionmw.quora.com/. More people would see it there

Why the sophistocated Chinese Empire could not modernise. Including details of the exceptional nature of European developments. And how Japan