Improving the Twentieth Century November 16, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
The IEA, one of Britain’s most serious think tanks, has recently published a list, a very stimulating list, of the thirteen great economic mistakes in British economic policy in the last century. All this got Beach thinking about the great mistakes in public policy generally since 1900. Here is a very limited list of points […]
Counter Factual: Mussolini Doesn’t Roll the Dice June 22, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Hitler tried to persuade Italy to join Germany in 1939. He failed but German arms did their own devilish work in Poland then in France. By late May 1940, when it was clear that France and Britain were on the edge of defeat, Mussolini made increasingly belligerent sounds. It was then Hitler who held the […]
A Poxy Invasion of Europe: 1340s May 23, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
So here’s the thing. A month ago StrangeHistory put up a post asking what would have happened had Europeans arrived in the New World in the fifteenth and sixteenth century without viruses being involved. The question was would Europeans have managed to conquer American real estate? There were lots of interesting answers from readers: all […]
