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"All Is Lost" Labour Party Conference 2025
The Labour Party Conference begins on Sunday in Liverpool. It already feels as decrepit and worn as the carpet in a Britannia Airport Hotel bar room.
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Childhood Was Something We Watched at the Cinema
It was overcast today, the way a Thursday in autumn likes to be.
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Capitalism Thought I Was a Man at Seven Years Old
My dad’s brother Matt died in 2014, but he was born today in 1930.
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The Clocks Are Striking Thirteen: America and the Rise of Fascism
I shouldn’t have watched Trump’s address to the United Nations today.
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You Can’t Vote Your Way Out of Charlie Kirk’s World
The lesson of the 1930s is clear: preventing fascism requires building strong, inclusive social safety nets.
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Building a Britain Fit for the Working Class
Leaving the RAF: March 1948
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From Construction to Destruction: My Father’s Generation and Ours
Some days history seems to repeat itself in the most grotesque ways.
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Our Comrades Will Face Show Trials First
Now that it is over, the journey into fascism took less time than I expected when the West set out on this political path, twenty years ago.
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It Takes Gumption, But Also Compassion & Love To Build A Socialist State.
Chapter 3 – Life On The Never, Never
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Humanity is on the back foot because Fascism has almost won.
The past few days felt fateful, as if a cataclysmic history was being written for us.
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When a Welfare State Was the Hope: Housing Then and Now
For the past 18 months, I’ve been piecing together a project my father was working on before he died: The Green and Pleasant Land. This excerpt comes…
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Harry Leslie Smith's "Life on the Never, Never"
When Happiness Was as Tightly Rationed as Sweets
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