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Thursday, 28 May 2026

Blair the derided carpetbagger.

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  Diavolo incarnato - Tony Blair Tony Blair is a derided carpetbagger. After leaving Downing Street, all he did was line his own pockets and...
Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Adam Smith & Moral Sentiments.

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  Adam Smith was not an economist. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University.  I have read his Wealth of Nations and I ...

Imagined Communities.

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  Many people today are obsessed with borders and regaining control of their borders, but before the late 18th century, there were no real n...

Burnham and the Bee Network.

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  I am a regular user of buses, so I do have some idea about the standard of service that is being provided in Greater Manchester.  Before...
Friday, 22 May 2026

All the Prime Minister’s Men: A Nixonian case study of Starmer’s corrupt government.

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  By: Andrew Wallace Anarchists contend that the idea and practice of government is a folly as it places individuals within a coercive frame...
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Manchester Power House or Manchester Doss House?

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  Lampwick Quay, Ancoats Manchester city centre has been dubbed 'Dubai on Deansgate' . It's rather obvious that there has been a...

Tameside Labour gravy train hits the buffer.

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  It was fairly predictable that voters in Tameside were going to give Labour a bloody nose. One councillor who lost his seat after 42 years...

Reform UK councillors have "zero political experience" says Tameside Reform UK Chairman.

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  Rob Barrowcliffe The chairman of Tameside Reform UK, Rob Barrowcliffe has just told us that the new Reform UK councillors who have been el...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

Tom Paine and Monarchy.

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  There's a singular lack of hostility shown towards the privileged aristocracy by people living in Britain and the Republican movement,...

Thomas Cromwell & Hilary Mantel.

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  Not very long ago, I read Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography on Thomas Cromwell.   Anne Boleyn's enmity towards Cardinal Wolsey ste...

Liberty and the defence of free speech.

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  The Islamophobe activist, Tommy Robinson, last spoke at the Oxford Union on 26 November 2014 and Unite Against Fascism (UAF), criticised t...

Is this the end for Zanu Labour in Tameside?

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  Reform UK Tameside The Zanu Labour gravy train in the one-party state of Tameside, has come to an abrupt end. Reform UK won 18 of the 19 s...
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Friday, 8 May 2026

Oppose no platforming and defend free speech.

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  The Oxford Union I remember when they tried to stop the Roman Catholic mother Victoria Gillick, speaking at the Oxford Union, because she ...

Labouring under fallacies.

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  British people labour under a lot of fallacies and one of the biggest ones, is that Britain has always had a capitalist system. You will h...

Marx and Bakunin.

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  The Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin, knew both Marx and Engels. He credited Marx with being a brilliant intellectual but a " privil...

Antisemitism in the British media.

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  Have you seen the egregiously anti-Semitic cartoons and caricatures of Zack Polanski that have been published in the Daily Mail and The Ti...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Did Marxist determinism lead to political quietism in Nazi Germany?

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  There's not much democracy in the British workplace, but it's capitalism that unintentionally, created the modern-day worker, trad...

Will Angela Rayner make a bid for Starmer's job after May local elections?

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  Angela Rayner Angela Rayner speaks with a lisp. When she was a young girl, her mother - who couldn't read or write - told her that she...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

Nazi war crimes doesn't excuse Israeli war crimes and genocide.

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  The Bombing of Gaza There were always pogroms against Jews in many European countries and anti-Semitism was common, but it's state pow...

Sir Olly Robbins

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  Sir Olly Robbins In what other occupation could you get sacked and then demand £1 million from the employer who sacked you. That's wha...
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