Tag: Contemporary history
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RC 317: Europa Mon Amour / Royal Flush
There Aint No Party Like A Brexit Party! Friday 31st of January, in the next day or so the UK will be exiting the European Union which it has been a member of since 1973. Europa No More! Longer than I’ve been alive. So this podcast isn’t a fusty dusty talk about the Ins and…
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Jonathan Pie & Extinction Rebellion
Let me say here – if it’s not been obvious – I support Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greta Thunberg. I find the people who criticise protest to be twunts of the highest order – protest is nearly always good (fascists marching through black/brown/Jewish neighbourhoods or Orangemen doing same can get in the sea though) but…
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Downing Street Memo – why the silence?
I think for us in the UK the whole WMC/Iraq thing blew up several years ago with the David Kelly affair, a stain on Blair’s government still which I doubt will wash away anytime soon in the minds of people, but we’re used to the fact we were lied to – not happy with it,…