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Bumtree #6
A few words from Seething on the idea behind Bumtree: G’day (again) Dover, I’ve been pondering the feedback on Bumtree and realised I hadn’t informed either yourself or a potential audience of the nature of the comic. I wonder if some were expecting the type of political caricatures that Tom links to each morning? Bumtree is not an…
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The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
The Fifties were a decade of unapparelled optimism, especially in the USA, which cast off wartime production necessities and redirected that mighty industrial capacity (barely two thirds of which had been utilised during the war) into production of consumer goodies for a large and hungry domestic market. This optimism was also reflected in a particular aesthetic,…
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The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
There is a well-known duopoly model in economics which explores what happens when two ice cream sellers occupy a beach. The two ice cream sellers will tend to congregate at the centre of the beach. If either of them were to move they would give their competitor an advantage in being closer to a larger…
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I note you didn’t deny hating Israel.
That was the reason I voted for Hawke. Best of a bad lot but that’s what politics is.
Don’t count her out of the presidential race. She is the Supreme Plotter. You wouldn’t trust her as far as…
You read it so we didn’t have to. I just gave it an automatic downtick, I think. Bless you.
Israel has reportedly been forced to send more soldiers into buildings where Hamas terrorists are thought to be hiding, rather than simply…