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Monday, 26 January 2026

Will 'free gear' Keir do a U-turn on Burnham to thwart a Labour civil war?

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  Will free gear Keir, have to make another U-turn and allow Andy Burnham to stand for selection for the parliamentary seat of Gorton and De...

If Nigel Farage becomes the next UK PM, will he turn Britain into the 51st state of the USA?

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  Nigel Farage - Leader of Reform UK I don't think Reform UK will take the Manchester constituency of Gorton and Denton. Labour has more...
Thursday, 22 January 2026

Lenin & the Russian Revolution.

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  If Lenin was such an orthodox Marxist as the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, believed, then Lenin would have held to the view that ...

Reform UK launches legal challenge against government plans to delay May local elections.

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  It looks like Labour are running scared of the electorate and are giving local councils the opportunity to delay elections until 2027. The...
Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Your Party wants to nationalize the British economy. Would this be in the interest of the state or the workers?

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  We had nationalization in the past in Britain before Maggie Thatcher and I once worked for a utility, but I wouldn't call it worker...

Rough sleeper found frozen death in Manchester City centre on Boxing Day.

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  On Boxing Day, a man was found dead under a bridge in Manchester City centre near to the Bridgewater Hall. The police said there were no s...
Monday, 5 January 2026

Trump bombs Venezuela and kidnaps its President!

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  Nicolas Maduro People will obviously question the legality of the kidnapping of the leftist Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, in terms...

Are the free market and immigration control incompatible?

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  Eddie Dempsey - RMT General Secretary The leader of the RMT union, Eddie Dempsey, is right to point out that very often those who do the h...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Orwell & the Americans.

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  The American military authorities in Europe, rounded up all the copies of George Orwell's novella Animal Farm that they could find and...

Orwell & the Communists in Spain.

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  Bob Edwards MP George Orwell spent six months in Spain and got shot through the neck on the Aragon front. His wife, Eileen, also went to S...

The Russians say they have no plans to invade other countries in Europe, but NATO is talking up plans for a war against Russia.

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  The Russians say they have no plans to invade other European countries, but I remember Putin saying that he had no plans to invade the Ukr...

Is social housing in Tameside being allocated on the basis of economic apartheid?

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  The housing developer Bankfoot APM has submitted plans to build 102 homes on land owned by the Greater Manchester Pension Fund. The deve...
Friday, 12 December 2025

Starmer blames the benefit system for youth unemployment.

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  Britain's lame duck Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, thinks the benefit system is responsible for trapping young people into unemp...

The People of the Abyss - Jack London

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  I read the book 'The People of the Abyss' , many years ago. It is Jack London's account of several weeks that he spent living ...

"To hell or Connaught", Cromwell in Manchester and Ireland.

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  Massacre at Drogheda Oliver Cromwell's statue in Manchester city centre was removed in 1968 ostensibly because of road development. So...
Monday, 8 December 2025

Starmer blames the benefit system for youth unemployment.

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  Keir Starmer Britain's lame duck Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, thinks the benefit system is responsible for trapping young peop...

Did financial market liberalisation lead to the 2008 financial crash?

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  A country like Britain is governed by people who are amateurs and who have not only never run a company, but really don't have much of...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

The politics of Nigel Farage.

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  Nigel Farage Occasionally, Nigel Farage does say something honest. He did say, " Politicians? Let's face it, they're all wank...

Britain's class divide: the Cutteslowe Walls of Oxford.

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  Cutteslowe Walls Oxford The English nationalism of people like Rupert Lowe, the former Reform UK MP, hardly bears scrutiny. I don't fe...
Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Richard Cromwell

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  Richard Cromwell They didn't fight the English civil war to behead a king, abolish monarchy, or to introduce democracy. General Thomas...

Former Reform UK Welsh leader jailed for ten years for bribery.

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  Although many British politicians are suspected of being on the take, it's almost unheard of to charge and convict a British politicia...
Friday, 28 November 2025

Enoch Burke returned to jail.

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  Enoch Burke Enoch Burke is the Irish school teacher who was dismissed from his job for gross misconduct because he refused to use the pref...

Labour to make shotgun ownership Section 1. Will air weapons be next?

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  I think the issue of legal gun ownership in Britain is really about social class. When I used to shoot 12 bore shotguns, every shotgun own...
Thursday, 20 November 2025

On being sane in insane places.

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  Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' , is possibly one of the greatest films...

The founder of Sinn Fein called for strikers during the Dublin Lockout to be bayonetted.

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  Arthur Griffith During the eleven months of the Irish Civil War (1922-23), more Irish were killed than had been killed during the War of I...

Child Exploitation in Victorian Britain.

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  Victorian child exploitation Many Victorian working-class kids were literally worked to death. Some of these children died of exhaustion. ...
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