Sunday, 24 May 2015

Our father's father moves motions at 1921 Convention of Shoe Workers Union

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At the Fifteenth convention of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Convention in May 1921 St Louis, Missouri Morris Rosen, (our father's father) ...
Saturday, 23 May 2015

Tories on immigration

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The Tory position on immigration is at first glance puzzling. Clearly, some people in the Tory party have attitudes to Britain, race, Empire...
Friday, 22 May 2015

How we 'won' the war in Iraq. (For Tony Blair)

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Michael Stephens of the Royal United Services Institute had this to say on the Today programme 19/05/15 "Let's take this inconsis...

A few notes on my comments on Where the Wild Things Are

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1. One of the problems with that kind of criticism is that it sounds spoilsport, overly condemnatory and dismissive. It may also sound as i...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

Where the Wild Things Are - what can marxist approaches to the book suggest?

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[UPDATE: I have added some notes to this article in my next blog] Where the Wild Things Are appears to be a book about things that we call...
Monday, 18 May 2015

Government Academies Policy Explained

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If your academy needs improvement it will be converted into…an academy because…er…academies are better, because they are…er…academies….apart...
Friday, 15 May 2015

Tristram Hunt looks into the middle distance and talks a crock of sh...

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Watching Tristram Hunt staring into the middle distance and struggling with what the Labour Party is actually for, made me want to write thi...