Like a huge number of people I felt that we had suffered so much from Thatcher and her Favourite Son. Domestically we were discarding the achievements of the Attlee administrations…
Cliff Jones
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Can you count the number of times that you read CAPITALISM IS DEAD?
11 December 2024I can’t. But it is still with us. And I am not sure that it has changed so much either. What, perhaps, has happened is that it has lost its…
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Starmer is now thinking about taking off the label TERRORIST from a group and changing it to FRIEND.
9 December 2024Do you now understand diplomacy as practised by our rulers? Of course you don’t, you are merely a bemused peasant who does not even read the Daily Torygraph where all…
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Please let us not be scared of the word. In the 1780s academics in the University of Goettingen were looking for a word to stand for a family of languages…
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POLITICAL WITTERING.
25 October 2024In 1971 the Politics Association was formed. It held its first conference in Didsbury and I was elected to its Executive Committee. All of its members were teachers of government…
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Karl Marx is supposed to have said, “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce.”
23 October 2024I think that the quotation came into my head because I was remembering the points made by two historians. Denis Mack Smith was the university tutor of my school history…
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INTERNATIONAL FRACKING.
22 October 2024I have written a fair bit about the fracking of society in the U.K. from 2010 onwards by the Tories. But now I see the extent to which the same…
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ISRAEL AND THE USA
21 October 2024Ha’aretz has a long article about religion being “the hottest trend in Israel”. Particularly among young people. Maybe ‘religiosity’ should be the word. My opinion is that if what the…
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Israel’s aims
15 October 2024Two memories from Israel, just two for now. One is of playing with a lovely four year old boy who could not have even tried to spell Zionism. He recently…
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THERE IS ONLY ONE F IN OFSTED
3 September 2024In response to the suicide of a devoted headteacher Ofsted have announced that they intend to shift from simple labels to reports with more words in them. In his book,…