Today in 1812 Napoleon, Emperor Napoleon, arrived in a deserted and mostly destroyed Moscow. This highly intelligent person was forced to realise that attacking Russia had not been such a…
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THE CLIFF JONES COLUMN
8 September 2023Today in 1935 Huey Long was killed. Quite how and by who it is not clear. He was a political opponent of FDR. Roosevelt’s New Deal usually has a good…
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THE CLIFF JONES COLUMN
2 September 2023Sir LINO (Labour In Name Only) is planning another purge. Now every Labour (sic) Party member who does not buy and devour the Sun, the Telegraph, the Mail and the…
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THE CLIFF JONES COLUMN
28 June 2023HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL, AMERICA’S QUEST FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE, 2003. By Noam Chomsky.
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Peel your eyes Plato – Save us from these politicians
16 March 2023Aristophanes gave us a great play, Lysistrata. For a view on war perhaps our politicians should be made to watch it.
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Save the Banks!
16 March 2023What shall, what can, what must we do? Once again our most blessed banks are suffering. Come on you poor, bestir yourselves and prop them up. You have done it…
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Inspired by a reminder of Latin homework just found in my old school blazer I shall attempt to make more use of the subjunctive. Let me see. “Had the voters…
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A Comedy Of Terrors. ,We, The Audience, Have No Cause To Laugh.
5 September 2022A Comedy Of Terrors. We, The Audience, Have No Cause To Laugh. Out of approximately 160,000 Tory voters just over 80,000 voted for Truss to be our Prime Minister and…
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THE CLIFF JONES COLUMN
12 May 2022To vote for any party connected to Farargo is to vote in support of a man perfectly willing to take the generous salary of an MEP plus the extremely generous…
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book review
10 May 2022LABOUR’S FIRST YEAR J.E.D. HallPENGUIN BOOKS (1947) This can hardly be a conventional book review that might influence new sales. The book was published in 1947 and written by an…
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