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Christmas 1945-Silent in a World at peace after a brutal war. Part Three.

Christmas Eve-Hamburg 1945-Part Two.

Silent Night-1945-Returning to a time when hope for a better tomorrow wasn't premature.

Hear Harry Leslie Smith's voice talk about austerity in the 21st century and his Christmas Past in Yorkshire 1930. It's no Captain Tom Yuletide.

The cost of living crisis was a sucker punch to the poor.

In the year of austerity 1930 Christmas was streaked with hunger like today.

We must make 2023 a year of Good Trouble because it is our last chance to resist the tyranny of the 1%.

Harry Leslie Smith February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018

Thanksgiving or the need for cheer before the austere gloom from a winter of discontent.

“Remember, it is about quality of life now rather than quantity.”

We were not a happy family when I was born on a cold, damp day in February 1923.

A Dog named Harry

Our most important role in life is that as a caregiver.

Austerity isn't on the horizon, it's smack in our faces.

1945: The conditions of surrender

Living in the Limbo of Covid

Twitter Made Me.

I will wear the poppy no more-Harry Leslie Smith

The Green & Pleasant Land

It's my party and I'll cry for revolution if I want to.

Their History has become our present tense. 1930s fascism is not so different from ours

Life is more Chekhov than Jane Austin

Darkness is coming both seasonally and politically.

For me, for you, the stress of living has become almost too much.

Peace with honour, if it was good enough for Nixon then it's good enough for Putin.

Don't Let My Past Be Your Future. The Barnsley Years

Harry's Last Stand Podcast Episode One, Scene One.

His humanity, and talent as an artist defined my brother's life not his mental illness

Labour Conference 2022 where Toryism ices the cake of centrism.

The Green & Pleasant Land

After her the Deluge-neoliberalism's last dirge.

You will soon forget you had cancer.

The Green & Pleasant Land

Don't Let My Past Be Your Future- Excerpt

True Hope Comes To Those who Fight For it.

The Housing Crisis is Democracy's Dead Canary.

Bank Holiday Weekend on the cusp of Economic collapse

I am a dead man walking.

Harry Leslie Smith & The Corbyn Years

A marriage of true minds as well as broken hearts and dreams.

It's time to make some Good Trouble

"I'm nearly 100 years old, I saw the 1945 refugee crisis first-hand – and I need people to listen to my warning"

Grief Repurposed in the Before Times.

Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down.

We must make the 1% pay for the earth's destruction.

Harry's Leslie Smith's past has become our future with the ending of public healthcare.

Canada Day and the World's Oldest Rebel

Fathers & Sons

Empathy is defiance.

June 8, 2017

Servant of the People

For the skint Rent isn't a musical.

The Cost of Living crisis tastes like fear.

Dying was an Insult to you.

Victory in Europe, 1945

Call me Friede.

Eye's Wide Open

It's been 767 days since the before times-everything has changed except the politics of entitlement.

I Stood With Harry

Harry Leslie Smith's last video plea before his death to make Refugees Welcome.

The April Rain

Mother's Day

Democracy dies in the shadows, so we must rekindle the light.

1945- when lilacs bloomed on the road to the Gates of Hell.

Boris Johnson, it's appeasement to Putin to turn your back on Ukrainian Refugees.

Cancer stalked me like an assassin for years

The Dead Don't Eat Birthday Cake

My Son Peter battled schizophrenia to a hard-fought draw

There Will Be Blood.

Dandelion and burdock

Our history has been rewritten by the entitled class.

My Mum, The Working Class Anna Karenina

We have reached a tipping point.

Don't Let My Past Be Your Future.

It is us or them.

My Cancer surgery was cancelled during Covid and it almost broke me.

Harry Leslie Smith Endorses Trade Unionism to end economic inequality

Mr. O'Sullivan