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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Why did Muslims in Gorton & Denton vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew?

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  Green MP - Hannah Spencer White people in the constituency of Gorton & Denton are not an " ethnic minority " as claimed by t...

In remembrance of Dave Hallsworth.

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  Dave Hallsworth I think I first met David Phipps Hallsworth, when I supported a strike at Intex Yarns, in Ashton-under-Lyne, in the early ...

Imperial blowback and WWI.

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  Gertrude Bell - The Queen of the Desert Britain and France redesigned and redrew the boundaries of the Middle East after the end of WWI in...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

Is Labour in danger of becoming irrelevant under Keir Starmer?

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  Sir Keir Starmer Keir Starmer is typically evasive. He can’t shoot straight. What a wimp! Who are " those people " that he const...

Blake & Jerusalem

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  William Blake If there are three pieces of music that symbolise ' Englishness ' for me, they're Elgar's Enigma Variations;...

Why does Britain have such a big problem solving homelessness?

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  As a country Britain has gone to the dogs. What we see emerging is a kind of Victorian underclass.  Last December, two men, Michael Heat...
Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Reform UK are the Alf Garnett's of British politics.

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  Reform UK are the Alf Garnett's of British politics. They're a kind of atavistic personality cult centred around their spiv leader...
Monday, 23 February 2026

Noam Chomsky & Jeffrey Epstein.

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  Noam Chomsky Noscitur ex socius. A man is known by the company he keeps and therefore Noam Chomsky, is guilty by association because he kn...
Monday, 9 February 2026

Tim Martin's fixation with Brexit.

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  T im Martin - CEO of J.D. Wetherspoon Although many British people are now beginning to realise that they were sold a pup with 'Brexit...

Meritocracy – the meta-narrative of liberalism.

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  By: Andrew Wallace ‘Man’ does not live by bread alone; it seems human nature must draw sustenance from existential motivation that rises a...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

The British ruling class have often put class interests before Britain's strategic interests.

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  The world's wealthy capitalist elite don't really recognise an allegiance to nations as such or national boundaries. What concerns...

Mandelson steps down from House of Lords and faces police investigation.

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  Peter Mandelson What does Peter Mandelson stand for or his creation New Labour? He's drawn to wealthy individuals like flies are drawn...
Monday, 2 February 2026

Ayn Rand and her capitalist super heroes.

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  I've read Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged and her fictional heroic capitalists aren't real estate developers or edge fund manag...

Joseph Stalin and the art of tyranny.

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  Joseph Stalin I think it was either Solzhenitsyn or the Yugoslavian communist, Ante Ciliga, in his book 'The Russian Enigma' , who...

Glossop has been dubbed one of best places to live. It's also known as the place where pensioners go to die.

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  Glossop Town Centre I don't think Glossop, in Derbyshire, is anything to shout about. The people are rather parochial and are very war...

Comrade Vasily Blokhin; Stalin's trigger finger.

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  The Soviet communist dictator Joseph Stalin, was responsible for the deaths of millions of Russian citizens and many of these, were execut...
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...
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