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    Stoicism: Forge Resilience and Purpose in a Jolly Modern World

    August 3, 2025 - By 

    What ho, intrepid reader! Too many fine chaps and chappesses wander about feeling adrift, isolated, and missing that all-important spark of purpose. Fear not, for Stoicism arrives like a polished cuirass, offering a robust code of conduct, a warrior’s handbook of values and virtues to carry you through any fog or squall. Think of it as an Anglosphere-approved game plan for living boldly and cheerfully, come rain or shine. Contrary to popular kerfuffle, Stoicism isn’t about stiff upper lips or emotionless automatons. Nay! At its heart, Stoicism is simply doing what’s right, come what may, feel what you will. It’s…

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    Britain Must Fire Up Its Entrepreneurial Engines!

    August 3, 2025 - By 

    What ho, fellow innovators! I’ve just dusted off C.P. Snow’s rather splendid 1959 critique of the literary set who fancied themselves “the intellectuals,” snubbing chaps like Einstein and von Neumann. But between arts and sciences lies a glorious new realm: entrepreneurship! Imagine a third culture where daring souls take splendid ideas by the lapels, give them a hearty shake and set them racing into the marketplace with all the vim of a steeplechase champion. It’s high time we donned our entrepreneurial spats and joined the fun! On a jolly jaunt to Oxford’s verdant science parks, I spied cranes looming like…

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    Empire of Nonsense and the Sovereignty of Satoshis

    June 23, 2025 - By 

    We take aim at the absurdity of fiat currency, and propose, with great pleasure, a rather elegant solution Let us begin, dear reader, with a fact so blindingly obvious it ought to be tattooed on the foreheads of every economics graduate and Treasury official from here to the European Central Bank: You cannot print wealth. There it is, simple, clean, and gloriously unfashionable. Like wearing a cravat to a hedge fund interview. And yet, for over a century, we have behaved as if money grows not on trees, but from keyboards. As if pressing “zero” a few more times conjures…