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For Continuance

"My Ambition Was Simple: Outlive The War"

On Trump's 80th Birthday, the Clocks Strike Thirteen for America

"It's so beautiful, I will miss it."

In 1942, My Civilian Self Receded

I Can’t Remember When I First Became a Zionist. But I Remember When I Stopped.

Not Patriotism But Socialism and a Dream of Escape Sent Me To War

The 1% Murdered History with Curated Nostalgia

Twelve Years On, Harry's Last Stand Went from Warning to Reality

History Isn't Repeating. It's Frozen in Fascism

Our Coming Storm Will Be Worse Than 1938

There Will Be Time Before Last Orders

“I Got Out, Dad”

Ours is an Age of Exhaustion

AI Is Rewriting the Past to Own Our Future

"Hitler's Going To Put Us In The Shit."

Is It Hello, Goodbye for Cuba Too?

Capitalism Left a Bitter Taste in My Mouth

Andy Burnham Won’t Stop My Father’s Past Becoming Our Future

“If You Want to Eat More, Get Another Job”

Poverty Is the Foundation of Unhappiness

Labour: Put Your Dinner Tray Up and Assume the Crash Position

The Lives My Mother Lived Before Me

The First Day of the Long Peace

A Bank Holiday in the Shadow of Collapse

May Day, 1945: My Mother’s Warning

The Cost of Living: A Foreclosure on Sleep

Don’t Get Killed Now: The Held Breath Between War and Peace

When Radiation and Neoliberalism Blew in the Wind

The Centre Built After 1945 Can No Longer Hold

You Endure Cancer

From Ramsay MacDonald to Keir Starmer: Labour’s Legacy of Betrayal

From the Coalface to the Pauper’s Pit

The Second Death of an Artist

All Hat, No Cattle: The Neoliberal Left

Precarity: a euphemism for being fucked over.

The Postwar Promise Died Gradually, Then Suddenly

The Britain We Came Home To

Keir Starmer: NHS Slayer

If We Did It Before, We Can Do It Again

Life on the Never, Never: Britain After the War

Neoliberalism Severed Our Shared Human Condition

Them or Us?

"Years of economic turmoil wore away our common courtesy."

How Many Aprils Do We Have Left?

Paycheque to Paycheque in a Rentier Economy

The Right to Be Moved by Beauty in an Age of Brutality

Living in Fight or Flight

The Way We Live Now

Normal Was Built On Neoliberal Quicksand

Imagine If "Socialist" Britain In 1948 Was Treated Like Cuba Is In 2026

Without Moral Fibre

The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Fear, Anger and Shame

Cuba’s Hunger Spring

“Are You Having It or Not?”

23 Years Later, America Is Losing the Iraq War in Iran

America, Israel, and the Unweaving of Civilisation

Capitalism Needs Us to Forget the Pandemic to Sustain Today’s Dystopia

The Dying and the Already Dead: Privatised Health Care

2026 Is Already Over The Precipice

The Tuesday Everything Stopped

Feminism Is a Deadly Weapon Against Totalitarianism

Substack — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

"Winning, Decisively, Devastatingly and Without Mercy"

Life and Death in a Rooming House

The Normality of War: 1939 or 2026?

Götterdämmerung at 2 A.M. EST

Greens — Remember What They Did to Corbyn and Our Hope

The Arithmetic of Survival

Even After Death, the Journey Matters

The Return Of Hunger, Filth, Fear and Death

The Welfare State Stood Between Us and Fascism

First Light — Remembering Is Resistance

Care Is Revolutionary

‘There is nothing more important than PEACE.’

I Became Your Comrade

A Century After the General Strike: Class Warfare or Authoritarianism

“I Walked All the Way from My Prison in Africa to This Prison in France.”

Born on Valentine’s Day But Died Loveless in a Doss House

Revolution: Neoliberalism’s Reckoning

Dennis Skinner at 94 — and the Labour Party That Once Was

"La Habana"

“It was a struggle.”

Inflation Is Just a Fancy Way to Spell Larceny

“Stay alive. It’s almost over.”

“I will work every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn.”

"Are You Harry Leslie Smith?"

Socialism: the idea capitalism couldn’t hang

When History Disappears, Genocides Reappear

Cuba Is the Hill the West Won’t Die On

Guns Before Butter: Starmer, Carney, and the New Austerity

It’s not nostalgia I want invoked, but rage.

To Everything There Is a Season — and This Is the Season of Trump

Most Comply Under Fascism. Some Don’t.

The Carney Doctrine: A Catechism for Corporatism

Neoliberalism Has No Mark Antony

The Hunger Winter.

The Next War Will Be Fought to Defend the Banality of a “Lesser Evil”

The “New World Order” Has the Same Old World Order Vibes

“Your Courage. Your Cheerfulness. Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory.” — Bollocks

Canada’s Maginot Line: U.S. Free Trade

What Would We Fight For?

The Empire No Longer Pretends to Be Benevolent

We Want Their Oil