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Bollocks to Krauts! Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl

26th August 2019 Going Postal 0

“Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl” was inspired by a story which circulated within dissidents circles when I was a student in Moscow in the early 1980s: several villages in Siberia were so remote [more…]

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How I learned to despise the left and fear the bomb

12th April 2018 rattuscatchus 0

It was during an English lesson during the late 1970s – English lessons were never about spelling, grammar, creative writing, etymology, poetry or literature, always, always politics – when a short term supply teacher told [more…]

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The New Politics: Globalism Vs. Nationalism

20th February 2018 Jonathon Davies 0

The Old Politics There is a shift in politics. This has been apparent for some time now. Politics used to be run along the lines of Left against Right. This evolved from the French Revolution [more…]

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