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Monday, 29 June 2020

The CovidWealth

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I watched a program about coronavirus in Italy last night. So sad, seeing an 18 year old guy on a ventilator and a teenage daughter sobb...
Monday, 8 June 2020

The Merchant

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A crowd in Bristol yesterday tore down a statue of the 18th century slaver Edward Colston and threw it into the River Avon. Colston fo...
Thursday, 4 June 2020

Sarajevo On The Potomac

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The Obama Presidency sadly masked the enduring nature of US empire with a purely symbolic change - the wars, racism, inequality and pove...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

Travels In Time And Space: Cummings to be new Dr Who!

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 Who? Dominic Cummings, adviser to Boris Johnson, has landed the prestigious part of the new Doctor Who . BBC producers insist that t...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

A World Made Small

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Once I dreamt Of galaxies of fire Streaming stars of possibility And supernovas of desire. A future potent with hope of a dawn that wo...

Lockdown: Humanity On Notice

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Empty city.    As we stumble about wondering what we are allowed to do and where we can go, here are some scenes from York in s...
Saturday, 2 May 2020

At Tyrants' Fall

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Who were you? What did you do? And what did you see With those haunting, haunted eyes That plead even now with me? Perhaps it was ...
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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