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Ellie Weeps for Us All

Ellie Simmonds is a small woman. She is a Dwarf.  I am an even smaller woman with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bones). On April 5th 2022 I watched Ellie do something quite revolutionary. Appearing in a mainstream television programme (The End of Dwarfism? BBC One)...

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People Love Real Work

Ian Duncan Smith, the well-known architect of Universal Credit, said “Don’t bring in universal basic income during pandemic as it would be a ‘disincentive to work” (Independent, March 19th 2020). What world does this man live in? Well, to be fair he might be right in...

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How The Labour Party Works

A Guide for the Bewildered by Micheline Mason 2017 Contents: What is the Labour Party Current Definition Democratic socialism What Does the Labour Party Stand For? How Your Local Party works The National Labour Party The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) How Does...

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Austerity – a Smokescreen for Eugenics

During the period December 2011 and February 2014 2,380 seriously ill people died after their money was stopped because the Government declared they were ‘fit for work.’ When challenged they claimed these figures were unrelated to their policies which they believed to...

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America Wants to Take Over Our Health System

Have you noticed that every week on the Six o’ Clock News there is at least one story of how the NHS is failing? Have you begun to get a bit suspicious? Have you thought this seems like a planned strategy to get us to think the whole system is collapsing and needs to...

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Young People and Classism in Britain

Ian Duncan Smith asks employers to employ British born young people in favour of foreigners, but they don’t want to. They say our home-grown youngsters are illiterate, can’t communicate and have no work ethic, unlike their Eastern European counterparts who speak and...

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CELEBRATING SAMENESS

I recently watched with horror the television film called ‘Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children’. (BBC 2) “ It showed the day to day suffering of children in a large state institution whose parents had rejected them because they were said to have impairments. Like all who...

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