So its Sir Kier Hardly-Hardy to lead the Labour Party. To what can we look forward? He cannot (who could?) be unaware that the more people listened as Corbyn expressed…
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Dear Prime Minister
31 March 2020Dear Prime Minister, I have not yet received your letter. I hope you did not lick the envelope. I believe that in the letter you praise to the sky our…
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The warm wafted warmth of a Caribbean paradise Island was their prison. Of course they didn’t realise it was a prison at all. They all thought they had been elected…
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UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists, yet the award received scant coverage in the…
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FILM REVIEW OF CHURCHILL
13 March 2018With Gary Oldman’s career-defining portrayal of him in Darkest Hour, Winston Churchill is back. In Great Contemporaries, published in 1937, two years after he had called Hitler’s achievements “among the…
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Richard Farnell: Something to hide?
13 February 2018When in June 2014 Rochdale MBC had begun a council-commissioned inquiry is into whether there was a town hall coverup relating to possible sex abuse at Knowl View, the late…
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Hard-line Blairite Remainers use sex scandal to target pro-Brexit MP Kelvin Hopkins
13 February 2018A lot of people in the public eye – particularly journalists and politicians – seem to be afraid to say this at the moment for fear it could damage their…
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Israel is a sort of democracy, but only a Spartan one
13 January 2018In Ancient Sparta there were three classes of inhabitant – true “Spartiates”, who were the descendants of the invading Dorian Greeks, the “perioikoi”, meaning those dwelling in the surrounds of…
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How many 91
13 January 2018How many 91-year-olds know what is being done with their money? But the people to whom that responsibility has been entrusted are answerable for it. The Chancellor of the Duchy…