That was a trade union slogan in response to Churchill’s budget of 1925. When he delivered that budget in the House of Commons it was met with cheers by stupid…
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The rich and the powerful were digging through our social foundations in order to extract what they could turn into profit for themselves. If you were not rich and not…
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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…
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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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FREEDOM, Angela Merkel, 2024.
9 December 2024Rather than write a conventional review of her very long and detailed autobiography I decided to say something about where I placed her and her values in what increasingly looks…
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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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There we were in the senate room of University College London sitting at a big round table. Outside the door, keeping guard in a sentry box on wheels was the…
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REVIEW OF A WAR CRIMINALS BOOK
27 October 2024Tony Blair On Leadership. Lessons for the 21st. Century. LEAD US NOT INTO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MINE IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER AMEN. Tony…
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Will Israel destroy the world?
23 October 2024Gallant to Israeli pilots: ‘after we strike in Iran, everyone will understand what you did in preparation and training’ Israeli media is reporting that defence minister Yoav Gallant has told pilots and…
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