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Under Park Chung Hee between 1962 and 1978 the per capita GNP of South Korea increased more than 14-fold

'Israel has zero war aims' - Israel's UK ambassador. One of the main causes of military defeats throughout history is not knowing what victory looks like. youtube.com/watch?v=nhTWO7…

Still laugh when I think about the time the EU regulators acted like they were launching a rocket

Sadly, the Kaiser appears to have let himself down. We may have to erase much of The Rest Is History's back catalogue.

'However Opposition Leader ... Peter Dutton declined to criticise Albanese but noted that many Australians were struggling with their own mortgages.' Wise. It's actually nobody's business. Stop making it harder for successful people to be politicians. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

dear derek guy please provide full assessment

politico.eu/article/north-… 'South Korea's spy agency said Friday it believes North Korea has already begun deploying four brigades totaling 12,000 troops, including special forces, to the war in Ukraine.'

"To be sovereign you have to be of the land," [the rude senator] said. "He is not of this land." So is ethnonationalism is okay now or no? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Farewell to England, as I embark on The Rest Is History's STAMP TAX RECLAMATION TOUR. 🇬🇧 Boston 11/10 🇬🇧 New York 11/13 🇬🇧 Philadelphia 11/14 🇬🇧 Washington 11/16 🇫🇷 Chicago 11/19 🇪🇸San Francisco 11/23 🇪🇸 Los Angeles 11/26 Tickets here: therestishistory.supportingcast.fm/events

I'm so old I remember when Florida was more a swing state than New Jersey

A lot of people criticise the US electoral college for being ludicrous but I don't think it's ever produced as skewed a result as the first past the post system did in the UK in 2024. Trudeau and Albanese have won in the past despite losing the popular vote.

Bottom line in my opinion: you can’t say something as serious as “Donald Trump is a threat to the country” while doing something as unserious as the Biden re-election premise. The urgency of the Democratic message was undercut by their own actions

St Thomas's Church might be the most beautiful place on the Isle of Man. The outside of St John's may be the best architecturally. Michael Sandle's 'Sculptural Rock Formations on the Isle of Man' is captivating. Thorwald's Cross is inexhaustibly interesting, etc.

Despite being a community of no more than 60, in the 1660s/70s Manx Quakers were subject to intense persecution, including (from Carswell’s Man and the Quakers) ‘being fined, placed in stocks and imprisonment to confiscation of goods and land, excommunication and transportation’

On 27th January 2015 an acorn from Auschwitz was planted in Hutchinson Square, Douglas, site of an internment camp in the Second World War, 'In recognition of Internees around the world'

The daughter-in-law of David Ben-Gurion (founder and first prime minister of the modern state of Israel) was a Christian-born Manx woman called Mary Callow, who met her husband while working as a nurse in a Liverpool hospital during the War. She died in 2018.

Mary was raised as a Christian and it seems converted under unusual circumstances, initially as a result of her husband's mother's pressure, though David Ben-Gurion, famously irreligious for most of his life, later described her as 'the only real Jew in the Ben-Gurion family'

Howard Simcocks, founder of Simcocks Advocates, was a House of Keys Member from 1956-74 and MLC until 1982. He was blinded in 1944 at the Battle of Monte Cassino after he, as he put it, 'engaged in an unsuccessful argument with an anti-tank mine'

Isle of Man's GDP from 1990/91 financial year to 2022/23 financial year (1990/91 index at 100)