In the midst of a nationwide lockdown, with a reintroduction of restrictions limiting social gatherings to six people being imposed by the country’s premier, it may feel as if our every move is being...
The Mallard Forecast this week is unchanged with both candidates having a 49% chance of winning the US Election. Note: Forecast above is to win the Electoral College (270 seats). Joe Biden has a...
The legendary Spartans of ancient Greece are known to have recognised the importance of appearance in battle. Herodotus described how the Spartans spent time before the battle of Thermopylae grooming themselves meticulously. Spartan King...
On Friday, to the chagrin of all sensible people in this country, Extinction Rebellion resumed last year’s protests. Demonstrations in London saw protestors blocking roads and stopping cars. Perhaps most egregious of all, demonstrators...
In the philosophy of the modernist artistic movement, one statement pervades all conversation, decrying the thought that modernism is anything but beautiful: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. In architecture, the entire viewpoint...
On the 10th of September local taxpayers will be asked to pick up the maintenance and repairs bill for a proposed youth shelter in King George’s Field, and possibly part of the £9,600 construction...
For most of the 70 years since the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War, China was an impoverished, authoritarian state. It had suffered from many of the economic, agricultural and industrial reforms of...
You see them move in packs in shops, bundling pencil cases, bags and shoes into their trollies. The adult holds a list, looking weary, whilst the child looks more interested in the toys or...
We are going through multiple crises: the viral pandemic, the struggle for Social Justice for all, and adapting to geo-political changes in the world. We are also searching for a new narrative or model...
From now until the end of the US Election, the MallardUK will run a weekly forecasting update on who we think will win the 2020 US Election come Polling Day (or weeks later, when...
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