http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2920/jeremy-blackburn Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:17:54 -0400 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:17:54 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1099/john-major-the-man-and-the-myth By Jeremy Blackburn - John Major was born in Merton, Surrey on March 29, 1943. He was the son of a trapeze artist/self-employed businessman making garden gnomes; he was educated at Cheam Primary and Rutlish Grammar School, leaving at 15. In fact, Major was one of the most upwardly mobile politicians in British history, rising from the dole to Downing Street. He worked as an insurance clerk, trainee accountant, general labourer, overseas banker, and eventually as a branch manager for the Standard Chartered Bank. He became Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in 1979 on the bow wave of the storm that was Margaret... Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1099/john-major-the-man-and-the-myth http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1146/the-final-frontier-space-exploration-and-politics By Jeremy Blackburn - It will weigh 400 tonnes, cover the area of two football pitches and act as permanent laboratory/living quarters for six scientists, as it orbits at 18,00Omph. Its assembly will be thei most dangerous and corn-‘ plex space operation as yet attempted, by any nation.’ Its name is ‘Space Station Alpha’. The base’s life began in 1984, when Reagan commissioned the construction of the sublimely entitled ‘Freedom Station’, hoping to have it built by 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of the New World. This then, would have... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1146/the-final-frontier-space-exploration-and-politics http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1126/will-new-britain-mean-the-end-of-the-uk By Jeremy Blackburn - The political entity that is the United Kingdom can often baffle its own population as much as it may baffle visiting tourists. Its main units are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, its peripheral areas including the Shetlands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man, while a number of anomalous dependencies exist such as Scilly, Sark, Jersey and Guernsey. Within these areas exist the definitive regions of the U.K. generally based around a cosmopolitan centre, each with its own specific character and opinions, all overlaid by either the ‘North-South’ or the ‘East... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1126/will-new-britain-mean-the-end-of-the-uk