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Labour Affairs Magazine
A) Latest Issues
2019 10 – Magazine
2019 10 – News From France
2019 10 – Newsnotes
2019 10 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 11 – Magazine
2019 11 – Mao’s Economic Success
2019 11 – News From France
2019 11 – Newsnotes
2019 11 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 12 – Magazine
2019 12 – News From France
2019 12 – Newsnotes
2019 12 – Parliamentary Notes
2020 02 – Magazine
2020 02 – Labour Gained The Young Discontented
2020 02 – Many Different Jewish Voices
2020 02 – News From France
2020 02 – Newsnotes
2020 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2020 20 – Jews Rejecting Attacks on Labour
2020 03 – Magazine
2020 03 – IRA More Moral Than the British Army
2020 03 – News From France
2020 03 – Newsnotes
2020 03 – Parliamentary Notes
2020 04 – Magazine
2020 04 – Slow Government Reactions to Covid-19
2020 04 – Social Ties and Covid-19
2020 04 Editorial – A Budget Fit For A Keynes?
2020 04 – News From France
2020 04 – Newsnotes
2020 04 – Parliamentary Notes
2020 05 – Magazine
2020 05 – News From France
2020 06 – Magazine
2020 06 – News From France
2020 06 – Newsnotes
2020 08 Magazine
2020 08 – Fear of China
2020 08 – Guaranteeing an Apprenticeship Guarantee
2020 08 – Labour Party Report on the Defeat in 2019
2020 08 – Leaked Labour Party Report on Anti-semitism
2020 08 – Letters on Churchill and Fascism
2020 08 – Poems
2020 08 – Magazine
2020 08 – News From France
2020 08 – Newsnotes
2020 09 – Tax and Spend Again
2020 09 – Magazine
2020 10 – Magazine
2020 11 – Magazine
B) Issues Before 2023
C) Past Issues from 2014
2018 – Labour Affairs
2018 02 – Magazine
2018 02 – British Trade Unionists in the Soviet Union in 1925 (2)
2018 02 – Comment on Carillion
2018 02 – Editorial – What A Carry On, Carillion
2018 02 – Labour and Local Government
2018 02 – Letter From New Zealand
2018 02 – News from Italy
2018 02 – Parliament And World War One
2018 02 – the crisis of German Social Democracy
2018 02 – News From France
2018 02 – Newsnotes
2018 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 03 – Magazine
2018 03 – British Trade Unionists in the Soviet Union in 1925 (3)
2018 03 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2018 03 – News from Italy
2018 03 – News From New Zealand
2018 03 – Parliament And World War One
2018 03 Editorial – Labour’s Poisoned Chalice
2018 03 – News From France
2018 03 – Newsnotes
2018 03 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 04 – Magazine
2018 04 – Editorial – Nerve Gas Attack
2018 04 – Foot Soldier
2018 04 – News from New Zealand
2018 04 – Parliament And World War One
2018 04 – Poems
2018 04 – Russia and the Nerve Gas Attack
2018 04 – the 1986 Print Workers Dispute
2018 04 – News From France
2018 04 – Newsnotes
2018 04 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 05 – Magazine
2018 05 – Britain’s Guilt in Syria
2018 05 – Fewer Anti-Semites in Labour than Tories
2018 05 – Foot Soldier
2018 05 – Memories of a Communist Building Worker
2018 05 – Parliament And World War One
2018 05 – Tax Evasion by the Rich
2018 05 -News from Italy
2018 05 2nd Editorial – Labour Foreign Policy
2018 05 Editorial – Labour Falsely Accused
2018 05 – Newsnotes
2018 05 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 06 – Magazine
2018 06 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2018 06 – Editorial – Ken Livingstone
2018 06 – Letter From New Zealand
2018 06 – News from Italy
2018 06 – Parliament And World War One
2018 06 – News From France
2018 06 – Newsnotes
2018 06 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 07 – Magazine
2018 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2018 07 – News from Italy
2018 07 – News from New Zealand
2018 07 – Parliament And World War One
2018 07 – Poems
2018 07 – Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
2018 07 Editorial – Funding the NHS
2018 07 – News From France
2018 07 – Newsnotes
2018 07 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 09 – Magazine
2018 09 – ‘New Labour’ Plot Against the NHS (1)
2018 09 – Corbyn, Labour and anti-Semitism
2018 09 – definitions of antisemitism
2018 09 – Labour’s Defence Policy
2018 09 – Letter From New Zealand
2018 09 – News from Italy
2018 09 – Parliament And World War One
2018 09 – Poems
2018 09 – Reply to Mark Cowling
2018 09 Editorial – Democratic Reforms
2018 09 – News From France
2018 09 – Newsnotes
2018 09 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 10 – Magazine
2018 10 – Antisemitism in the Labour Party
2018 10 – Corbyn Foot Soldier
2018 10 – Industrial Schools
2018 10 – Kaufman on Gaza, Palestine & Israel
2018 10 – New Labour undermined the NHS (2)
2018 10 – New Zealand
2018 10 – News From Italy
2018 10 – Parliament And World War One
2018 10 – Plan for a New Economy
2018 10 – Poems
2018 10 Editorial – Corbyn Gains Authority
2018 10 – Newsnotes
2018 10 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 11 – Magazine
2018 11 – ‘Black ’47’ – film about the Irish Potato Famine
2018 11 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2018 11 – Extreme Weather in Italy
2018 11 – Letter from Our New Zealand
2018 11 – New Labour and the NHS (3 of 3)
2018 11 – Parliament And World War One – June 1918
2018 11 – Poems
2018 11 – US Military Planning (book review)
2018 11 Editorial – Brexit’s Troublesome 5%
2018 11 – News From France
2018 11 – Newsnotes
2018 11 – Parliamentary Notes
2018 12 – Magazine
2018 12 – Brexit Options
2018 12 – New Zealand News
2018 12 – News from Italy
2018 12 – NHS Articles – Correction
2018 12 – Parliament And World War One
2018 12 – the 1973 coup in Chile
2018 12 – The BBC, the First World War and the Germans
2018 12 – Underlying Brexit Issues
2018 12 Editorial – Brexit Renegotiations
2018 12 – News From France
2018 12 – Newsnotes
2018 12 – Parliamentary Notes 1 – Mrs May
2018 12 – Parliamentary Notes 2 – Legal Position
2019 – Labour Affairs
2019 02 – Magazine
2019 02 – Corbyn Foot Soldier
2019 02 – Labour and Education
2019 02 – News from Italy
2019 02 – News from New Zealand
2019 02 – Parliament And World War One
2019 02 – Poem
2019 02 – Popular Protests in 1950s Belfast
2019 02 – tribute to Max Levitas, British Communist
2019 02 Editorial – Brexit and Brussels
2019 02 – News From France
2019 02 – Newsnotes
2019 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 03 – Magazine
2019 03 – 1919 (poem)
2019 03 – Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
2019 03 – Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
2019 03 – Jews on Zionism & Socialism
2019 03 – Letter on Education
2019 03 – Letter on School Performance
2019 03 – News from Italy
2019 03 – News from New Zealand
2019 03 – Parliament And World War One
2019 03 – The Economy And Brexit
2019 03 Editorial – Labour’s ‘Independent Group’
2019 03 – News From France
2019 03 – Newsnotes
2019 03 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 04 – Magazine
2019 04 – Anxious Citizen of the Digital State
2019 04 – In the Shadow of Grenfell
2019 04 – Labour And Higher Education
2019 04 – Letter on Education
2019 04 – Mark Cowling on anti-Semitism
2019 04 – News from Italy
2019 04 – Parliament And World War One
2019 04 – Reply To Mark Cowling
2019 04 – Rexit (poem)
2019 04 – Stroud Green Branch Forum on Anti-Semitism
2019 04 – Trade Unionism and ‘In Place of Strife’
2019 04 -Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
2019 04 -Letter to The Guardian on Margaret Hodge – Not Published
2019 04 Editorial – Last Throw Of The Dice?
2019 04 – News From France
2019 04 – Newsnotes
2019 04 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 05 – Magazine
2019 05 – Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party
2019 05 – Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
2019 05 – Labour and Education Policy
2019 05 – Letter from New Zealand
2019 05 – News from Italy
2019 05 – Parliament And World War One
2019 05 – Poems
2019 05 Editorial – Anger Over Brexit
2019 05 – News From France
2019 05 – Newsnotes
2019 05 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 06 – Magazine
2019 06 – Antisemitism in the Labour Party
2019 06 – Farage and Italian Politics
2019 06 – Labour and Israel
2019 06 – News from Italy
2019 06 – Parliament And World War One
2019 06 – Poems
2019 06 – private utility monopolies
2019 06 Editorial – May as Victim of Brexit
2019 06 – News From France
2019 06 – Newsnotes
2019 06 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 07 – Magazine
2019 07 – Anti-Irishism in Labour
2019 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2019 07 – Letter from New Zealand
2019 07 – Modern Monetary Theory
2019 07 – News from Italy
2019 07 – Parliament And World War One
2019 07 – Poems
2019 07 – Review of Tory Brexit ideas
2019 07 Editorial – Boris Johnson our next PM?
2019 07 – News From France
2019 07 – Newsnotes
2019 07 – Parliamentary Notes
Israel Taking Too Much
2019 09 – Magazine
2019 09 – Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
2019 09 – Is the Labour Party Anti-Semitic?
2019 09 – Jewish Voice for Labour
2019 09 – News from Italy
2019 09 – News from New Zealand
2019 09 – Poems
2019 09 – Reader’s Letter on Antisemitism
2019 09 – Rethinking Socialism
2019 09 – Unite union on Tom Watson
2019 09 Editorial – Brexit Regardless Of Suffering
2019 09 – 300th issue of our magazine
2019 09 – News From France
2019 09 – Newsnotes
2019 09 – Parliament and World War One
2019 09 – Parliamentary Notes
A) Editorials
2019 10 Editorial – Labour Handling Brexit
2019 11 Editorial – the British General Election
2019 12 Editorial -Hopes for the Election
2020 01 – The Brexit Defeat
Labour’s Lost Seats – Causes
Labour’s Vote Held Up in the 2019 Defeat
2020 02 Editorial – The Route To Labour’s Leader
2020 03 Editorial – Labour’s Craven Candidates
2020 05 Editorial –Labour’s Internal War
2020 05 Newsnotes
2020 05 – Political Theory in Responding to Covid-19
Covid-19: Missouri’s Lawsuit Against China
2020 06 Editorial – Starmer Under Fire
2020 06 – Baby Boomers and Modern Politics
2020 06 – How Covid-19 Was Recognised
2020 07 Editorial 1 – Starmer Sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey
2020 07 Editorial 2 – Brexit, Covid-19 And Labour’s Task
2020 08 Editorial – is the Tory Government a Russian Fifth Column?
2020 09 Editorial – A Clause 4 Moment
2020 10 Editorial – A Dishonourable Start
2020 11 Editorial – Corbyn Suspended
2020 11 Editorial – The Deficit Myth
2021 04 Editorial – National Debt is Irrelevant
Before 2018
2000 to 2009 – Magazine
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocrisy
Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
Genius and other mental abnormalities
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone.
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
Raymond Williams in World War Two
Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
Slavery in the British Empire
Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
The Anglosphere in 2004 (Anticipating Brexit)
The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
The many versions of democracy
The original guerillas of Spain
The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
The World View behind the 2003 Gulf War
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
2010 to 2013 – Magazine
2000 03 Editorial
2000 03 Newsnotes
2000 08 Leading Article
2009 – Socialism, Inequality and Health
2009 – the UK’s economic imbalance
2012 – Labour Affairs PDFs
2013 – Labour Affairs PDFs
2013 12 – Magazine
2013 12 – Construction Safety
2013 12 – East London and The Mosque
2013 12 – Editorial
2013 12 – Froggy: News From Across The Channel
2013 12 – Ireland and Irish Americans
2013 12 – It’s A Fact
2013 12 – Notes On The News
2013 12 – Parliament Notes
2013 12 – Revitalising Social Europe
2014 01 – Palestine and the International Criminal Court
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Classes in Britain in 2011
Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
Evolution Prevented By Competition
How John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
Market Minorities Across the World
Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
Minterism: an English Vanity
The many versions of democracy
The Usefulness of Group Thinking
Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid
2014 Magazine
2014 01 – Magazine
2014 01 – Britain’s Economy
2014 01 – British Public Misled
2014 01 – Editorial
2014 01 – Froggy
2014 01 – It’s A Fact
2014 01 – Letter about Alex Sayle
2014 01 – Newsnotes
2014 01 – Parliament Notes
2014 01 – Unifying South Africa
2014 02 – Magazine
2014 02 – British Economy
2014 02 – Editorial
2014 02 – Froggy
2014 02 – It’s A Fact
2014 02 – Letter on BBC Reporting World News
2014 02 – Manufacturing in Britain
2014 02 – Newsnotes
2014 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2014 02 – Real Jobs
2014 02 – The Entrepreneurial State
2014 03 – Magazine
2014 03 – America’s Euro-Colonies
2014 03 – Editorial
2014 03 – Froggy
2014 03 – It’s A Fact
2014 03 – Newsnotes
2014 03 – Parliament Notes
2014 03 – poem
2014 03 – Radical Rightists of 1979
2014 03 – UK should imitate Germany
2014 03 – Wealthy Pay Less Tax
2014 03 – Welsh Water
2014 04 – Magazine
2014 04 – Against Glorifying World War One
2014 04 – Bob Crow: A Tribute
2014 04 – Editorial
2014 04 – Froggy
2014 04 – It’s A Fact
2014 04 – Newsnotes
2014 04 – Parliament And World War One
2014 04 – Parliament Notes
2014 04 – poem about Crimea
2014 04 – The Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union
2014 04 – the Secession of Crimea
2014 04 – Tory Pension Plans
2014 04 – Workers on company boards
2014 04 Parliament in World War One
2014 05 – Magazine
2014 05 – Bringing on World War Three (poem)
2014 05 – defending the National Health Service
2014 05 – Editorial
2014 05 – Froggy
2014 05 – It’s a Fact
2014 05 – Listening to Italy
2014 05 – Newsnotes
2014 05 – Parliament And World War One
2014 05 – Parliament Notes
2014 05 – The London Underground Dispute
2014 06 – Magazine
2014 06 – Editorial
2014 06 – Froggy
2014 06 – It’s A Fact
2014 06 – Listening to Italy
2014 06 – Newsnotes
2014 06 – Parliament And World War One
2014 06 – Parliament Notes
2014 07 – Magazine
2014 07 – Editorial
2014 07 – Froggy
2014 07 – It’s A Fact
2014 07 – News from Italy
2014 07 – Newsnotes
2014 07 – Parliament And World War One
2014 07 – Parliamentary Notes
2014 07 – Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2014 07 – Tory Plans for Pensions
2014 09 – Magazine
2014 09 – Editorial
2014 09 – Italian Politics
2014 09 – Newsnotes
2014 09 – the TUC and Industrial Democracy
2014 09 – What’s Happening In France
2104 09 – It’s a Fact
2104 09 – Parliament
2014 10 – Magazine
2014 10 – Editorial
2014 10 – In Situ (poem)
2014 10 – It’s a Fact
2014 10 – News From France
2014 10 – News from Italy
2014 10 – Newsnotes
2014 10 – Parliament And World War One
2014 10 – Parliamentary Notes
2014 10 – Tory Promises and the Scottish Referendum
2014 11 – Magazine
2014 11 – Failing in Afghanistan (poem)
2014 11 – Froggy
2014 11 – Listen to Italy
2014 11 – Newsnotes
2014 11 – November Editorial
2014 11 – Parliament And World War One
2014 11 – Parliamentary Notes
2014 11 – Poppies and Butcher Haig (poem)
2014 11 – Tories and Human Rights
2014 12 – Magazine
2014 12 – Dumb Insolence (poem)
2014 12 – Editorial
2014 12 – Froggy
2014 12 – Listening to Italy
2014 12 – Newsnotes
2014 12 – Parliament And World War One
2014 12 – Parliamentary Notes
2015 Magazine
2015 – Magazine (2)
2015 02 – Magazine
2015 02 – February Editorial
2015 02 – Froggy
2015 02 – Letter on Small Business
2015 02 – Liberté Egalité Fraternité (poem)
2015 02 – Listening to Italy
2015 02 – Newsnotes
2015 02 – Parliament And World War One
2015 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2015 02 – Plastered of Paris (poem)
2015 03 – Magazine
2015 03 – Creating Good Jobs
2015 03 – Froggy
2015 03 – Is This The Way To Armageddon
2015 03 – Jobs in London
2015 03 – Letter from Italy
2015 03 – March Editorial
2015 03 – Newsnotes
2015 03 – Parliament And World War One
2015 03 – Parliamentary Notes
2015 03 – Small Big Men
2015 04 – Magazine
2015 04 – Editorial
2015 04 – Fascists and Anti-Fascists (poem)
2015 04 – Froggy
2015 04 – Italy
2015 04 – Jihad’s Other God
2015 04 – Newsnotes
2015 04 – Parliament
2015 04 – Sleepy Hollow (poem)
2015 04 – Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
2015 04 – Parliament and World War One
2015 05 – Magazine
2015 05 – Editorial
2015 05 – Froggy
2015 05 – Italy
2015 05 – letter on Liberalism
2015 05 – Newsnotes
2015 05 – Osborne’s pension plans
2015 05 – Parliament and World War One
2015 05 – Poem on the latest Royal Birth
2015 05 – Spain’s Mondragon Cooperatives
2015 05 – Tweedledum (poem)
2015 05 – Unemployment (poem)
2015 05 – Workplace Learning
2015 06 – Magazine
2015 06 – British General Election Key Seats
2015 06 – Froggy
2015 06 – Italy
2015 06 – Mondragon (2)
2015 06 – Newsnotes
2015 06 – Parliament and World War One
2015 06 – Parliament Notes
2015 06 – Power Imbalances in the Workplace
2015 06 – Rampant Criminalisation (poem)
2015 06 Editorial – Election Mythology
2015 07 – Magazine
2015 07 – Editorial – Looking For A Leader
2015 07 – Froggy
2015 07 – Human Rights in the UK
2015 07 – Italy
2015 07 – Newsnotes
2015 07 – Parliament And World War One
2015 07 – Parliament Notes
2015 07 – Streetwise (poem)
2015 07 – Tears Without Boundaries (poem)
2015 07 – Ukraine Illegally Removed Its Elected President
2015 09 – Magazine
2015 09 – Editorial – What is a Real Opposition?
2015 09 – News from Italy
2015 09 – Newsnotes
2015 09 – Parliament and World War One
2015 09 – News From France
2015 09 – Parliamentary Notes
2015 10 – Magazine
2015 10 – Corbyn and NATO
2015 10 – Editorial – All Shook Up
2015 10 – Industrial Relations
2015 10 – News From Italy
2015 10 – Normal Service (poem)
2015 10 – Strident (poem)
2015 10 – Wasting the Workforce’s Talents
2015 10 – What Is Sauce (poem)
2015 10 -Parliament And World War One
2015 10 – News From France
2015 10 – Newsnotes
2015 10 – Parliamentary Notes
2015 11 – Magazine
2015 11 – Consumerism and Inequality
2015 11 – First Let It Be Human (poem)
2015 11 – It Wasn’t Me, Mister (poem
2015 11 – Labour Left, Right or Centre
2015 11 – News from Italy
2015 11 – nuclear deterrence
2015 11 – Parliament And World War One
2015 11 – Who Started World War Two?
2015 11 Editorial
2015 11 – News From France
2015 11 – Newsnotes
2015 11 – Parliamentary Notes (1)
2015 11 – Parliamentary Notes (2)
2015 12 – Magazine
2015 12 – Bombing ISIL in Syria
2015 12 – Corbyn, An Honest Englishman
2015 12 – Editorial 1 – A Thinking Labour Party
2015 12 – Existing State Of Things (poem)
2015 12 – Letter on Assisted Dying
2015 12 – National Dementia (poem)
2015 12 – Parliament And World War One
2015 12 Editorial 2 – Osborne’s Sleight Of Hand
2015 12 – News From France
2015 12 – Newsnotes
2015 12 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 Magazine
2016 02 – Magazine
2016 02 – Bombing Syria: Letters From MPs
2016 02 – Corbyn’s Voting Record
2016 02 – Guernica Still Burns (poem)
2016 02 – Military Lobying
2016 02 – News From Italy
2016 02 – NHS – No Hounding Socialism (poem)
2016 02 – Parliament And World War One
2016 02 – Prime Minister’s Question Time (poem)
2016 02 – Rail, Rents, and Housing (part 1)
2016 02 – Welfare And Work Reform Bill
2016 02 – News From France
2016 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2016-02 Editorial – Hilary Benn & Syrian Bombing
2016 03 – Magazine
2016 03 – Banning Bertrand Russell
2016 03 – crimes of European Imperialism
2016 03 – Editorial – Brexit
2016 03 – Family Poverty
2016 03 – Gurkhas
2016 03 – Housing Part 2
2016 03 – NATO causing more violence
2016 03 – news from Italy
2016 03 – speech by Jeremy Corbyn
2016 03 – Thank You For Self-Harming (poem)
2016 03 – News From France
2016 03 – Newsnotes
2016 03 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 04 – Magazine
2016 04 – Britain and Greece in World War One
2016 04 – Editorial – Schools as Academies
2016 04 – Gone West (poem)
2016 04 – Ian Duncan Smith resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary
2016 04 – more on the Ghurkha
2016 04 – News from Italy
2016 04 – Social Cleansing (poem)
2016 04 – Trade Unions & Industrial Democracy
2016 04 – News From France
2016 04 – Newsnotes
2016 04 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 05 – Magazine
2016 05 – Corbyn Accused
2016 05 – Jews Denying ‘Labour Antisemitism’
2016 05 – Justice for Hillsborough
2016 05 – Life of a Labour Activist
2016 05 – News from Italy
2016 05 – Parliament And World War One
2016 05 – Poems
2016 05 – The European Union Referendum Revisited
2016 05 – News From France
2016 05 – Newsnotes
2016 05 – Parliamentary Notes
2016-05-Editorial: Steel in Britain and Germany
2016 06 – Magazine
2016 06 – Brexit
2016 06 – Corbyn’s Heavy Burden
2016 06 – Labour and Anti-Semitism
2016 06 – Labour Party campaigning
2016 06 – News from Italy
2016 06 – Parliament and World War One
2016 06 – Poems
2016 06 – the Fate of Israel
2016 06 – News From France
2016 06 – Newsnotes
2016 06 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 07 – Magazine
2016 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2016 07 – Divisive Politics
2016 07 – How to Elect a Labour Leader
2016 07 – Labour and Antisemitism
2016 07 – Labour and Northern Ireland
2016 07 – News From Italy
2016 07 – poems
2016 07 -Parliament And World War One
2016 07 – News From France
2016 07 – Newsnotes
2016 07 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 09 – Magazine
2016 09 – 1917 debates on the Labour Party and the war
2016 09 – a Corbyn foot-soldier on Labour’s Rule Book
2016 09 – MPs Voting For the Iraq War
2016 09 – Poems
2016 09 – Waste Processing in Italy
2016 09 – Welfare Reform Vote
2016 09 – What Tony Blair did to the Labour Party
2016 09 Editorial
2016 09 – News From France
2016 09 – Newsnotes
2016 09 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 10 – Magazine
2016 10 – Dark Deeds By The River Of January (poem)
2016 10 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2016 10 – News from Italy
2016 10 – Newsnotes
2016 10 – Parliament And World War One
2016 10 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 10 – Tony Blair – power, money and scandals
2016 10 – Tories & Grammar Schools
2016 10 -News From France
2016 10 Editorial
2016 11 – Magazine
2016 11 – Apple Avoiding Taxes
2016 11 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2016 11 – Immigration & the labour market
2016 11 – News From Italy
2016 11 – Parliament And World War One
2016 11 – The Battle Of Cable Street
2016 11 – White Cotton (poem)
2016 11 Editorial
2016 11 – Newsnotes
2016 11 – Parliamentary Notes
2016 12 – Magazine
2016 12 – Antisemitism in the UK
2016 12 – Degraded Globalisation
2016 12 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2016 12 – Don’t Cryogenic Me (poem)
2016 12 – Free Speech On Israel
2016 12 – News from Italy
2016 12 – Parliament And World War One
2016 12 – Richmond Park by-election
2016 12 – UK manufacturing declining
2016 12 – worker representation on company boards
2016 12 Editorial – Corbyn’s Performance
2016 12 – News From France
2016 12 – Newsnotes
2016 12 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 Magazine
2017 02 – Magazine
2017 02 – Charities and Organiser Salaries
2017 02 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 02 – news from Italy
2017 02 – Parliament And World War One
2017 02 – poems
2017 02 – Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin (Part 1)
2017 02 Editorial – Brexit
2017 02 – News From France
2017 02 – Newsnotes
2017 02 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 03 – Magazine
2017 03 – obituary for Gerald Kaufman
2017 03 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 03 – Editorial- Testing Time for Corbyn
2017 03 – News from France
2017 03 – news from Italy
2017 03 – Newsnotes
2017 03 – Parliament And World War One
2017 03 – Parliament Notes
2017 03 – poems
2017 03 – Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin (2)
2017 04 – Magazine
2017 04 – Brexit (Triggering Article 50)
2017 04 – Editorial – Labour’s Timid Tendency
2017 04 – Labour Party Industrial Strategy
2017 04 – News From France
2017 04 – News from Italy
2017 04 – Newsnotes
2017 04 – Parliament And World War One
2017 04 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 04 – Poems
2017 04 – workers on company boards
2017 05 – Magazine
2017 05 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 05 – Editorial – Trusting Theresa May
2017 05 – Ken Livingstone Not Antisemitic
2017 05 – Labour has the Young Voters
2017 05 – News From Italy
2017 05 – Parliament And World War One
2017 05 – Poems
2017 05 – News From France
2017 05 – Newsnotes
2017 05 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 06 – Magazine
2017 06 – Corbyn and Boris Johnson on Foreign Policy
2017 06 – Corbyn on Foreign Policy
2017 06 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 06 – Do the Richest 5% Earn It?
2017 06 – News From Italy
2017 06 – Parliament And World War One
2017 06 – Poems
2017 06 – Editorial – Corbyn’s Comeback
2017 06 – News From France
2017 06 – Newsnotes
2017 07 – Magazine
2017 07 – All Corbynites Now
2017 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 07 – News from Italy
2017 07 – Parliament And World War One
2017 07 – Poems
2017 07 – the fire at Grenfell Tower
2017 07 – News From France
2017 07 – Newsnotes
2017 07 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 09 – Magazine
2017 09 – Editorial – Brexit Blues
2017 09 – Baby Boomers to Blame?
2017 09 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 09 – Labour in Northern Ireland
2017 09 – News From France
2017 09 – News from Italy
2017 09 – Newsnotes
2017 09 – Parliament And World War One
2017 09 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 09 – Poems
2017 09 – Taylor Report on Employment Practices
2018 09 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 10 – Magazine
2017 10 – Editorial – Brexit Divisions
2017 10 – British Responsibility for Northern Ireland
2017 10 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 10 – News From France
2017 10 – News From Italy
2017 10 – Newsnotes
2017 10 – Parliament And World War One
2017 10 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 10 – Poems
2017 11 – Magazine
2017 11 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 11 – Editorial – Tories Now Fear Corbyn
2017 11 – Jews OR Zionism?
2017 11 – Letter From New Zealand
2017 11 – News From Italy
2017 11 – Poems
2017 11 – News From France
2017 11 – Newsnotes
2017 11 – Parliament And World War One
2017 11 – Parliamentary Notes
2017 12 – Magazine
2017 12 – British Trade Unionists in the Soviet Union in 1925 (1)
2017 12 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
2017 12 – Housing in London’s Harringey
2017 12 – News from Italy
2017 12 – news from New Zealand
2017 12 – poem
2017 12 Editorial – the Tory Budget
2017 12 – News From France
2017 12 – Newsnotes
2017 12 – Parliament And World War One
2017 12 – Parliamentary Notes
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How Chinese Communism Fixed a Broken Society
How Mao Greatly Strengthened China
In a Hole In a Hole Dwelt a Nothingness
Marxism and the Wrong Turning of 1987 to 1995
Mussolini’s Links to the British Centre-Right
New Right Ideas – the End of the Road
P42 – Tories Made a Europe Fit for Fascists
A Trial For Mussolini – Showing Former Tory Friendship With Him
Churchill in 1927 Praising Italian Fascism
Mainstream British Thinkers Close to Fascism
Orwell on British Jews (1943)
Orwell on Foot’s Anti-Tory Book
Racism and Slavery – Long Histories
Post-Liberalism
Being An Aboriginal European
Chinese Politics Working Well
Israel as a Western Colony
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
Problems Magazine – Older Issues
A 1988 view seeing Gorbachev’s economic reforms as failing
A 1988 view seeing Islam as a new Ideology Of Progres
British Distortions of German Motives in World War One
Encouraging Iraqi Rebels in April 1991
Gorbachev ‘s Failure, Foreseen in 1990
Gorbachev and Islam, reconsidered in 2010
How the British Establishment Planned World War One
How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
Looking Back in 1991 at East Germany’s collapse
Many Versions of Democracy
Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
P1 – 59 – Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
P1 – 60 – The religious roots of Britain’s Industrial Revolution
P1 – 62 – Civilisation Alley: A Band of Pre-Industrial Empires from Britain to Sri Lanka
P1 – 63 – Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
P1 – 65 – Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
P1-44 – The Don’t-Care State
The 1991 Invasion of Iraq – not International Law
The Failed Russian Coup of 1991
The Irish State in 1990
The Soviet Collapse and the Putin Recovery
The United Nations as a 20th Century Myth
The United Nations War on Iraq in 1991
The Vanishing of Leninist Eastern Europe (viewed from 1990)
Thoughts on Socialism And Private Property
Warning in 1991 Against a War Against Serbia
William Cobbett and England’s 1830 ‘Captain Swing’ Rural Riots
William Cobbett’s 1831 Trial for Free Speech
Russian Christianity and the Bolsheviks
The invention of agriculture and cities
The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
The Morality of World War One
The West Fails in Five Civilisations
Western Failures in Five Civilisations
Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
What Are Numbers?
What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
What is Artificial Intelligence About?
What’s Wrong With Socrates
How Platonism Infected Christianity
Why China’s ‘Blue Republic’ Achieved Nothing
Why Globalisation is Failing
Why Labour Lost in December 2019
Why Spontaneous Politics Mostly Fails
Working-Class Public Schools?
F) Free Pamphlets
British Government Guilt in the Great War
China as a New Civilisation
Labour needed Corbyn
Additional Material
Labour Never Anti-Semitic
G) Soviet History, and Russia’s Aftermath
Brendan Clifford on the Russian Revolution – 1
Brendan Clifford on the Russian Revolution – 2
Market Socialism in the Soviet Union
Marxism and Market Socialism
Russia and the Nerve Gas attack on Sergei Skripal
Stalin was the real heir of Lenin
The extremism of Soviet legal theory
Why Che Guavara approved of Stalin
H) Other Websites and Blogs
I) Democracy and Parliaments
M) Articles By Topic
British Labour History
M99) Topic Menus from Long Revolution Website.
10) Ideas and Ideals
10.1) More Ideas
Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
Sir James Goldsmith: Rich, Loud and Ignorant
Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
10.2) Further Ideas
Classes in Britain in 2011
Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
How the Left Created Modern Ideas of ‘The Normal’.
How to prevent school massacres
Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
Raymond Williams Remembered
The World View behind the Gulf War
Baby Boomers to Blame?
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
Khrushchev Influenced By Trotskyism
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid
15) Science
15.1) More science
Blond Hair not Racial
Cooking Made Us Human
Gifts Close to Madness?
Letter About Memes
Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
The Evolution of Bees
Why Motherhood Exists
15.2) Yet More science
Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
The Decline of US Science
The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
And So Say All of Me
Big fierce animals are losers
Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
Chimps Are Never Tame
Constellations – a Human Invention
Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
Evolution Prevented By Competition
Human Altruism and Psychopathy
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Mice more evolved than humans
Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
The Usefulness of Group Thinking
20) History
Civilisation Alley
Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
Religion and Capitalism
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
The ‘White Race’ does not exist
The original guerillas of Spain
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 1
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 2
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 3
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 4
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 5
The Truth of Troy
When Wheels Entered History
Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
30) Britain
30.1) More on Britain
Ed Miliband’s anti-state legacy
How New Labour Emerged from 1970s Labour Leftism
Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
Poppy Day after the Iraq War
The Royal Bank “of Scotland”
William Hague and the 2001 General Election
Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
Boris Johnson and the ‘Russian’ Nerve Gas Attack
British Democracy Began in 1884
Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
Labour Party Defectors of 2019
Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
Minterism: an English Vanity
Orwell as a British Imperialist
Slavery in the British Empire
The Brixton Riots of 1987
The Legacy of Tony Blair (2007)
The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
Why Labour needs Jeremy Corbyn
40) China (including Tibet)
40.1) More on China
China rejecting the Western political system
Communist China’s 1989 Fight for Survival
Reviewing ‘Mao: the Unknown Story’
Reviewing Martin Jacques ‘When China Rules The World’
The 1989 Tianenmen Crackdown, viewed from 2001
The Hainan Island incident of 2001
40.2) Tibet
Falsehoods in ‘Seven Years in Tibet’
How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone
The Strange History of the Dalai Lamas
The Tibetan Race Riots of 2008
Tibet and International Law
Why the West should not be encouraging Tibetan separatism
China’s ‘Three Bitter Years’, 1959 to 1961
Communist China’s survival after the Tiananmen Crackdown
How Mao Modernised Chinese Thinking
45) Fascism & the Two World Wars
45.1) More on Fascism & the World Wars
How Britain Planned World War One
Orwell on Spain and Britain
The British Empire’s Accidental War With Nazi Germany
Was the Brest-Litovsk Peace Unreasonable?
What Churchill really meant by ‘The Few’
Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
Britain’s 20th century wars
British and US Genocide
Deaths Caused by Hitler
Hitler’s English Inspirers
How Churchill was Close to Fascism
How Hitler Might Have Had a Victorious Peace
How the Tory Party aided Hitler’s Rise
Raymond Williams in World War Two
The British Empire, the USA and Hitler
Why Churchill Admired Mussolini
Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
48) Anti-Semitism and Zionism
Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
Criminalising Holocaust Denial
Fewer Anti-Semites in Labour than Tories
Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
Israel as a Western Colony
Israel Taking Too Much
Jews Suffering in the Fall of the British Empire
Ken Livingstone Not Antisemitic
Market Minorities Across the World
Zionism as the Abolition of Jews
Zionism’s Suicidal Militancy
50) Globalisation
50.1) More on Globalisation
David Hutton and “The State We’re In”
Opium City – the story of Hong Kong
Rationality and World History
Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
The Anglosphere in 2004
The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
What ‘Stakeholder’ Means
Anti-Globalisation in 2001
Are Top Salaries Really Justified?
David Miliband on Democracy
Degraded Globalisation
How Everything Changed in 1979
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation in the Year 2000
Olympic Sports for the Top Four
Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
Russia and the Nerve Gas attack on Sergei Skripal
The many versions of democracy
The Web Is Always Insecure
The World After 9/11
Ukraine – Kiev’s Five-Day War Machine
What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
55) Economics
2019 05 – Where new products really come from
55.1) The Human Basis of Economics
Capitalism Within Culture
Capitalist ‘Managerial Science’ is Highly Collectivist
Economics is About People, Not Money
How we are still paying for fear of Corporatism in the 1970s.
The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
55.2) Adam Smith Misled Us
Adam Smith and the New Right
Adam Smith Faked His Most Famous Claim
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
Coleridge’s Alternative for the British Economy
Corporations Are Against Individualism
Economics is About People, Not Money
Real Economic Growth Was Not Based on Adam Smith’s Ideas
The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
Adam Smith and the New Right
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Capitalism as a theology
Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
How National Economies Really Grow
How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
Market Winners Rob the Rest of Us
Replacing Capitalism by Capitalism
The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
The errors of New Right economics
Trickle-Down Never Happened
Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
65) New Right Ideas
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Errors of Friedrich Hayek
Inequality and no ‘Trickle-Down’
International Law and the 1990s
Milton Friedman and his Errors
Models of Democracy
Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
New Right Ideas – Hayek and Ayn Rand
70) USA
Bewitched – Television from the 1960s USA
Bill Clinton’s Injustice Towards Iraq
Both Sides Were Racist in the US Civil War
Colin Powell and Vietnam massacres
How the USA Shifted Left after World War Two
Kennedy Assassination – Two Separate Plots?
Obama as Just Another Ineffective President
The Space Shuttle, the ‘Right Stuff’ and Chuck Yeager
73) Democracy
Democracy and one-party states
How John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
Letter on Democracy and Capitalism
75) Other Politics
1950s British War Crimes in Africa
Bias in the Nobel Peace Prize
Corporations Good, Corporatism Bad?
How Ideologies Collapsed Within the Soviet Union and Within Roman Catholicism
How Marxism Redefined Human Society
How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
Japan Doing OK
Starting the Iraq War (2003)
US Reactions to 9/11
US Shysterism in Iraqi in 2004
Variable Eternal Truths about Serbs and Germans
76) Problems Magazine
Agnes Smedley and China’s Red Army
Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
Asocialism – the Core Idea of the New Right
Balfour on Cobden and Progress
Balfour Against Free Trade
Balfour Against Progress?
Balfour on Cobden
Balfour on Progress
Why does Balfour Still Matter?
China: Blue Ants and Dangerous Reds
China: Nurturing Red Stars
Freedom as Misunderstood by Liberals
How Chinese Communism Fixed a Broken Society
How Mao Greatly Strengthened China
In a Hole In a Hole Dwelt a Nothingness
Post-Liberalism
Being An Aboriginal European
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Russian Christianity and the Bolsheviks
The End of the Road for New Right Ideas
The invention of agriculture and cities
The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
The West Fails in Five Civilisations
Traditional China Resisted Modernisation
What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
Why China’s ‘Blue Republic’ Achieved Nothing
Gorbachev – Ruining Your Own Country
77) Why Humans Make Religion
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Enoch Powell’s Odd Defence of the Gospels
Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Twists the Tale
Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
Unexpected Things said in the Bible
What do we mean by ‘Evil’?
80) Literature
80.1) Literature, Film and Art
Book Covers
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
Minterism: an English Vanity
Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
85) Science Fiction & Fantasy
85.1) Tolkien
000) Lord of the Rings, Chapter by Chapter
101) Opening, and A Long-Expected Party
102) The Shadow of the Past
103) Three is Company
104) A Short Cut to Mushrooms
105) A Conspiracy Unmasked
106) The Old Forest
107) In the House of Tom Bombadil
108) Fog on the Barrow-downs
109) At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
110) Strider
111) A Knife in the Dark
112) Flight to the Ford
170) When Would Normal Gold Melt?
180) Gandalf, Rings and Ringwraiths
201) Many Meetings
202) The Council of Elrond
203) The Ring Goes South
204) A Journey in the Dark
205) The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
206) Lothlórien
207) The Mirror of Galadriel
208) Farewell to Lórien
209) The Great River
210) The Breaking of the Fellowship
270) Who Is Tom Bombadil?
301) The Departure of Boromir
302 – The Riders of Rohan
303 – The Uruk-Hai
304 – Treebeard
305 – The White Rider
306 – The King of the Golden Hall
307 – Helm’s Deep
308 – The Road to Isengard
309 – Flotsam and Jetsam
310 – The Voice of Saruman
311 – The Palantir
401 – The Taming of Smeagol
402 – The Passage of the Marshes
407 – Journey to the Cross-roads
408 – The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
409 – Shelob’s Lair
410 – The Choices of Master Samwise
800 – Tying Chapters to Dates
888 – Finding It Hard To Read?
A Letter to Private Eye Defending Tolkien
Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
Filming Tolkien
Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
Tolkien and British History
Tolkien and Le Guin
Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
Eyes and Illusions in Tolkien and Le Guin
Home Movies of the Soul
How Did Gandalf Find the One Ring?
Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
My Own Science Fiction
700) Very Short Stories
Becoming Dangerous Yellow
Einstein and the Official Christmas Day
Fire works, Ice Endures
Mistcrap in Flipworld
Turning the Year
Vindalf’s Gift
710) Stories under 1000 words
Third Time Lucky
A close transit of a gas giant
A fight at the Temple of the Black Cloud
How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
One Walked To War
Several Stars Away From Home
Sociopaths and Osteopaths
The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
The Seven Months War of 1914: 1)
The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
The Seven Months War of 1914: 3) The Christmas Truce and the Bryan Plan
The Seven Months War of 1914: 4) Peace Plans and the Problem of Bosnia
The Seven Months War of 1914: 5) The Consequences of the 1915 Peace
Troy Before Homer
Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
The Moral Void in Star Wars
Tolkien and British History
Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
Tolkien in the language of film
998) Backup ‘Long Revolution’.
Chinese Politics Working Well
Liberalism From Cromwell to Lloyd George
The French Revolution and Its Unstable Politics
00) Main Menu
10) Human Biological History
And So Say All of Me
Blond Hair Occurred at least Twice
Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
Chimps Are Never Tame
Cooking Made Us Human
Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
Gifts Close to Madness?
Human Altruism and Psycopathy
Letter About Memes
Mice more evolved than humans
Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
The ‘White Race’ does not exist
The Usefulness of Group Thinking
Why Motherhood was Created by Natural Selection
Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
15) Other Science
Big fierce animals are losers
Does Physics Find Only Holes Within Holes?
Evolution Prevented By Competition
Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
Humans On A Cosmic Scale
Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
Physics and the Nature of Reality
Schrodinger and Cheshire Cats
Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
The Decline of US Science
The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
The Unexpected Muon
20) British History
Arkwright and the rise of the factory system
Being An Aboriginal European
Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
British Democracy Began in 1884
Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
Petty Describing Real Capitalism
Race & Reformist Rioting – Brixton 1987
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
25) World History
Agnes Smedley and China’s 1930s Red Army
Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
Civilisation Alley
Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
Deaths Caused by Hitler
Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
The invention of agriculture and cities
The Morality of a Gulf War (Nov. 1990)
The original guerillas of Spain
Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
30) Human Dynamics
‘Everyone’ and ‘Anyone’ are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
ASCII – an Unhappy Legacy for Computers
Baby Boomers to Blame?
Behind every Great Man there’s a Great Ape
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Don’t Confuse Mao with Mao
Don’t Speak of Cold Misty Mountains
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Market Minorities Across the World
Months in English – an Odd History
Must We Have the Profit Motive?
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
35) Politics
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
Democracy and one-party states
Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
How John Stewart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
How National Economies Really Grow
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Original Conspiracy Theory
What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
40) Against globalisation
Anti-Globalisation in 2001
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Chinese Politics Working Well
Degraded Globalisation
Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
How Everything Changed in 1979
How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
Market Minorities Across the World
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Anglosphere in 2004
The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
The Web Is Always Insecure
The World After 9/11
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
403 – The Black Gate is Closed
404 – Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
405 – The Window on the West
406 – The Forbidden Pool
45) Why Humans Make Religion
Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
60) About Science Fiction & Fantasy
A look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Game of Thrones and Other Filmable Fantasy
Home Movies of the Soul
Priam’s Tragedy and the Wrath of Achilles
The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
The Moral Void in Star Wars
80) Holiday Photos
About Me
Blog on Science
Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
News Archive From 2010 to 2019
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1994 to 1999 – Magazine
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
How to prevent school massacres
My Father Raymond Williams
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
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Ernest Bevin’s Lost Labour Heritage
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Magazine 001 January 1987
Life of Anthony Crosland
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Racism as Anti-Racism
Reagan’s Star Wars
Magazine 002 – April 1987
Chinese Anti-Party Protests of 1987
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Growing Inequality (noted in mid-1987)
Legalising Prostitution
Life of Clement Attlee
Life of Hugh Dalton
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Why Harold Wilson’s Government Achieved Little
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Why Socialists Should Accept the British Monarchy
Why the West Saved Saddam Hussein in 1987
Magazine 005 – January 1988
Disbelieving Gorbachev’s Reforms (Jan. 1989)
French Peasants in the 1920s (in film)
From Stalin Down To Gorbachev
Newsnotes 005 – January 1988
Socialism and Child Benefit (in 1988)
Spycatcher: Fact or Fantasy
Magazine 006 – April 1988
Left-wing Fear of Corporatism (in 1988)
May 1968 in France
Newsnotes 006 – April 1988
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Afghanistan Neglected in 1988
Conflicts Between Rival Nationalisms in 1988
Newsnotes 007 – July 1988.
The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Doomed the Soviet Union
The Effects of Pornography (in 1988)
Magazine 008 – October 1988
How Thatcher Encouraged Selfishness
How Vietnam Won the War But Lost the Peace
Newsnotes 008 – October 1988
Socialism and the 1688 British Revolution
The Bevin Society: Aims and Purposes
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Demanding a Written British Constitution
Newsnotes 009 – January 1989
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Housing in Britain (in 1989)
Newsnotes 010 – March 1989
Should the Labour Party Accept Nuclear Weapons?
Thatcherism Failing (written March 1989)
The British Left Made Thatcher Possible
Magazine 011 – May 1989
Belfast in the French Revolution (Book Review)
Protecting Islam Within Britain (History )
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Looking Back at the Europe Stalin Made
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Thatcher and Gorbachev as Soulmates
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Green and Socialist Fit Naturally
Jesus of Montreal (film review)
Lessons from the 19th century German Customs Union
Newsnotes 015 – January 1990
Socialism and Vegetarianism
Magazine 016 – March 1990
British Literati and the Satanic Verses (in 1989)
British socialist should see the monarchy as useful
Ceausescu’s Fall (as seen in March 1990)
Climate Change (a warning from 1990)
East Europe in March 1990
Gender and Words
Mandela in March 1990
Newsnotes 016 – March 1990
Rail Privatisation Errors Foreseen in 1990
Thatcher Not Good for British Capialism
Turks and Others (as seen in March 1990)
Magazine 017 – May 1990
Against Modernist Architecture (in 1990)
Americanizing the Labour Party (in 1990)
Does Pornography Cause Violence?
Letter on the Electricians Union in the 1950s
Misunderstanding Stalin
Newsnotes 017 – May 1990
Thatcher and the Poll Tax Riots
The Poll Tax Riots of 1990
Magazine 018 – July 1990
Democracy and the Communist Manifesto
Iraq – a Crisis Before the Kuwait Invasion
Morality and Modern Christian Failure
Newsnotes 018 – July 1990
Racism in London (in 1990)
Review of a Biography of Bertrand Russell
War Crimes Trials – Only for the Defeated
Why US Electronics Succeeded
Magazine 019 – September 1990
H. G. Wells Vision of Benevolent Dictatorship
Interview with Barbara Castle
Iraq in 1990 – No Better Alternative Existed
Newsnotes 019 – September 1990.
Warning Against a Gulf War (in late 1990)
Magazine 020 – November 1990
Iraq and International Law (late 1990)
Labour Must Uphold Full Employment
Marx and Engels excluded Parliamentary Democracy from the Communist Manifesto
Newsnotes 020 – November 1990
Poverty and the Planet
Shrewd Remarks by Churchill
Star Trek – Rebooted for the 1990s
The IRA as criminals or warriors?
The Moscow Trials of the 1930s
The Politics of Bonfire Night
The US Teamsters Union
Magazine 021 – January 1991
Adam Smith Had Alien Social Values
Blasphemy for Atheists? Why Bother?
Force-Labour Camps in 1930s Britain.
How Thatcher Encouraged Welfare Dependency
How Thatcher Repeatedly Rewarded IRA Violence
Newsnotes 021 – January 1991
Poland in 1991
Sovereignty and a Single European Currency (in 1991)
Tories Claim a Classless Society
Warning Against a Gulf War (Jan. 1991)
When John Major Succeeded Thatcher
Magazine 022 – March 1991
Hunter-Gatherers in a World of Machines
Iraq Tricked Into Invading Kuwait?
Jack Jones, 1970s Trade Union Leader
Newsnotes 022 – March 1991
Saudi Arabia Encouraged the 1991 Gulf War
The First Bad Gulf War (1991)
The USA Forced a War Over Kuwait
War Without Law (History)
Magazine 023 – May 1991
Gulf War Lies & Callousness to Arabs
Interview with Eric Heffer
Newsnotes 023 – May 1991
Sicilian Godfathers in Fact and Film
The Post-1956 Failure of Pro–Moscow Communism
The United Nations and the 1991 Gulf War
Magazine 024 – July 1991
Against Bush’s New World Order
False History for Ireland
Mao’s Achievements (as seen in 1991)
Newsnotes 024 – July 1991
Tribute to Eric Heffer
Magazines 025 to 036
Magazine 025 – September 1991
1991 Interview with Bill Morris
Green Issues and the Labour Party (in 1991)
Industrial Democracy – the Lost Chance
Labour in the Irish Republic (in 1991)
Making peace in South Africa in 1991
Neglect of the Mentally Ill (in 1991)
Newsnotes 025 – September 1991
Serbs and Croats – who was Anti-Nazi?
Student Politics Remade the Left (1 of 3)
The 1991 Soviet Coup – viewed just afterwards
Magazine 026 – November 1991
Newsnotes 026 – November 1991
Black Sections in the Labour Party (in 1991)
Eric Heffer
Labour and Student Politics, 2 of 3
Serbs in 1991 Allowed to Crush Albanian Kosovo
The USA’s New World Order (in 1991)
What Ernest Bevin did for Trade Unionism
Magazine 027 – January 1992
British Government Disrupts the European Union (in 1991)
Newsnotes 027 – January 1992
The novel ‘How Green Was My Valley’
‘Marxism Today’ smugly winds itself up amidst the ruins of left-wing politics
Magazine 028 – March 1992
How Charles Haughey Transformed Ireland
Newsnotes 028 – March 1992
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy.
Magazine 029 – May 1992
Labour Needs a Working Class Section
Newsnotes 029 – May 1992
Student Politics Remade the British Left (3)
The Labour Party and Trade Unions
Was Modern Industry a Mistake?
Magazine 030 – July 1992
‘Bomber’ Harris in 1920s Iraq
Darwinism – a Creed Needing Correction
Football as Culture (in 1992)
Kier Hardie – Labour’s First MP
Kleptocracy in Yeltsin’s Russia
Newsnotes 030 – July 1992
Russia past and present (in 1992)
When Marxism Was Made Fashionable (in 1992)
Magazine 031 – September 1992
Europe and Currency in 1992
History of the Transport and General Workers’ Union
Newsnotes 031 – September 1992
The Housing Shortage in 1992
The Iraq Exclusion Zones in 1992
Yugoslavia Betrayed in World War Two
Magazine 032 – November 1992
Adam Smith and the American Revolution
British citizens or UK customers?
Failed British Generalship in World War One
Newsnotes 32 – November 1992
Magazine 033 – January 2020
British balance-of-power games
Iraq and The West (in 1993)
Litigation as the enemy of Welfare
Lost Chances in the English Civil War
Newsnotes 033 – January 1993
Secession – Different Rules Applied in Yugoslavia
Workers Control in Germany (in 1993)
Magazine 034 – March 1993
Adam Smith Undermining Social Values
Hitler’s Fondness For Croats
Newsnotes 034 – March 1993
Rejecting the ‘New World Order’ (in 1993)
Socialism & Society By Ramsay MacDonald (1)
Magazine 035 – May 1993
Adam Smith and the Fragmentation of Work
Bad NHS Reforms (in 1993)
Britain Damaging Yugoslavia (1994)
Corruption in Italy
Newsnotes 035 – May 1993
Ramsay MacDonald: Socialism & Society (2)
The Illogic of English Spelling
Yeltsin Becoming Dictatorial With Western Approval (1993)
Magazine 036 – July 1993
‘Falling Down!’ – a Film About US Failure
Lithuania in 1993 (1)
Newsnotes 036 – July 1993
Trade Unions – A Link with Reality for Labour
William Morris On What Life Might Be
Magazines 037 to 049 – Updated 09/2023
Magazine 037 – September 1993
Adam Smith Misunderstanding State Power
Letter to the editor about Ramsay MacDonald, plus Reply
Newsnotes 037 – September 1993
Report from Lithuania in 1993 (2)
Magazine 038 – November 1993
Adam Smith’s Idea of the Invisible Hand
Defending the Right to Silence
Feminists Against Equality?
Newsnotes 038 – November 1993
The IRA as the most British thing in Ireland
The Need for an Incomes Policy
Magazine 039 – January 1994
Crime and Morality
Fascism and Social Nationalism
Newsnotes 039 – January 1994
Russia : The Incompetent Capitalist Revolution in 1994
The “Voluntary” Sector Not the Best Answer
Magazine 040 – not yet scanned
Magazine 041 – May 1994
Bosnian Serbs Provoked (in 1994)
C S Lewis as hypocrite
Castro’s Reasons
Major’s Failed ‘Back to Basics’
Memories of the Opium Wars
Palme Dutt, British Communist from the 1920s
Paul Foot on Pit Closures
Thinking About Nixon
Tory lack of a good leader after Major
UN Bungling in Bosnia in 1994
Why Thatcherism Happened
Magazine 042 – not yet scanned
Magazine 043 – not yet scanned
Magazine 044 – not yet scanned
Magazine 045 – January 1995
Clause 4 and Common Ownership
Labour Party Policies from 1918
Labour’s Original Clause 4 (Public Ownership)
Magazines 050 to 059
Magazine 053 – April 1996
Chinese ‘expansionism’
Guns and Social Morality
Hutton and ‘Stakeholders’
Letter from Australia (From 1996)
Newsnotes 053 – April 1996
Why democracy fails in Northern Ireland
Why Welfare and Nationalisation Worked After 1945
Will Hutton Interviewed about ‘The State We’re In’
Newsnotes From 1987
Policy Statement (from the 1980s)
What Is Placed, and Why
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Freedom – the West’s Original Version was Different
Kennedy: the end of High Liberalism
Liberal Imperialism – Renewed in Iraq in 2003
The British Constitution – Not What They Say It Is
Magazines for the year 2001 – the invasion of Afghanistan
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