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You Can't Peacefully Vote Your Way Out Of Fascism.
Six years ago, spring came early to Europe; February felt like early May in 2019.
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News of his death in 1943, shamed me.
1943 was a watershed year for Britain and my Dad.
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"The heavy breath of war was near everyone in 1943."
Today is the most dangerous and tumultuous time since the 1930s.
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She Often Wanted More From Life & Deserved It.
Both my parents are long dead and yet their lives cast a long shadow over mine.
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We are in a revolutionary world not of our choosing but partially of our making.
There were moments when I didn't believe the news of my illness to be true after I was diagnosed with rectal cancer.
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Neoliberalism Delivered Us Onto Caesar.
Before my father died in 2018, he spent the previous decade using the history of his life and working-class contemporaries as a political canvas to spur…
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Welcome to the age of dictatorship because the World hasn't been this dangerous since WW2.
The World hasn’t been this dangerous to live in since 1940.
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A Rooming House Death, In An Age Of Neoliberalism.
I’ve recycled this post because it has been two years since the person who this essay is about died.
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A Trump America is Canada's Greatest Existential Threat Since Confederation.
My father was a citizen of two nations, Britain and Canada.
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January 2025

In the dead of winter, false hope is better than no hope.
On last night’s walk, the wind was frigid and bit into the exposed skin on my face.
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2025 is the year, we lose the Second World War to the Nazis and fascism.
It took me longer to write this piece because breathing down my neck is a fast approaching rent day. Trump's second coming as President green-lit…
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Neoliberalism was the best potting soil for fascism. The Green & Pleasant Land
The 1930s should have taught us that declining economic and social conditions make the best potting soil for fascism. But our entitled classes ignored…
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