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Friday, 24 April 2020

Jonestown, USA: The Death Cult of Donald Trump

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" I could stand on the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters. " So Donald Trump lau...
Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Bernie Sanders and the Revolution to Come

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Passing the Progressive Torch: Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders And so democratic socialist standard-bearer Senator Bernie Sanders has sus...
Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Pandemic

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PANDEMIC The streets are empty The hospitals full. The last bread gone The final bell tolled in school. Stop the trains Then shut ...
Monday, 2 March 2020

Super Choice on Super Tuesday

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Sanders and Warren SUPER-TUESDAY, the only second working day of the week to lay claim to such a dubious titĺe, is about to dawn De...
Sunday, 19 January 2020

Film Review: JO JO RABBIT - or "Mein Kampf for CBeebies"

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After viewing this film, currently doing the rounds, the overhwelming reaction has to be to ponder how it has been received with so muc...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Beating Boris - YOU can do it!

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Tomorrow I will vote Labour. In our constituency, it is the only way to stop the Tories - we have an excellent Labour MP, but with a small ...
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Saturday, 16 November 2019

Things Fall Apart : one week in the disintegration of Boris Johnson

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"All this has happened before and will happen again." Whether this line brings to mind Peter Pan or Battlestar Galactica may...
Saturday, 9 November 2019

Be Like Vasili: personal reflections 30 years after the Fall of the Wall

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I nearly died before I was born. I have a man I never met to thank for my life - and so do you. It can be difficult to remember som...
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Thursday, 7 November 2019

Not The Brexit Election

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Sick and tired of Brexit? Sticking to the Tory script, Sky News is running every single new bulletin with a " Brexit Election ...
Thursday, 31 October 2019

Boris Johnson - A Pericles for Our Time?

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The man who would be Pericles History can teach, warn and inspire us. If we don't understand the past, how can we fathom today? An...
Saturday, 26 October 2019

The Time of Monsters

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It's almost passe to say the world is in turmoil. And while to some degree it always has been, a glance at today's news shows ...