As a qualified schoolteacher I ought never to use words like ‘thick’. Unprofessional! But then I look at our politicians and so many words like that come to my lips.…
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THE IDEA OF ISRAEL by Ilan Pappe. THE INVENTION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL by Shlomo Sand. Both are worth reading in order to help understand what is happening there…
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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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Today 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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Better, Worse or Different? Well….perhaps. Like anything from decades -their symbol is the rose after all…. But was it really that much better than our 21st Century counterpart? Let’s examine,…
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Sir 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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“He enjoyed a long and fulfilled retirement surrounded by his loved ones.” Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed Technical failure leaves hundreds of holidaymakers enraged On Monday disaster struck for holidaymakers trying…
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“It is blatantly obvious that many of these companies are solely here for profit rather than progress” “Pride not greed” With autumn on the way, Pride festivities have come to…
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HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL, AMERICA’S QUEST FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE, 2003. By Noam Chomsky.
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THE CLIFF JONES COLUMN As a teenager interested in politics I thought I would read Capital and Mein Kampf. People in the bookshop looked at me as though I had…