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This list includes ‘left independents’
Edmund Griffiths has put together this table of left candidates in UK general elections:
https://edmundgriffiths.com/leftge.html
I’ve culled our record our (I can’t get tables to work here, so I’ll have to use an image).
Ed Griffiths has done the work for find the aggregate left (of Labour) votes all the way back to 1841:
https://edmundgriffiths.com/leftge.html
@imposs1904 indeed it is, but, erm, younger. Strange way to see Mrs McCluskey…
Another series:
Edward Woodward, a slightly more right wing dystopia (he’s a people smuggler in the first episode, helping people escape Grim Britain to go to a better life!) The second series ends with a Thatcher-alike leading the liberation against the big state: it was Billed as 1984+6 years…
Finally made it all the way through: I particularly enjoyed Arthur Lowe as the slippery Prime Minister.
I’ve just run across another cracking series:
The Guardians, Britain falls to a military coup…
Possible row back on the Starmer quote:
“Asked if he would use that word to describe himself, Sir Keir told the BBC: “Yes, I would describe myself as a socialist. I describe myself as a progressive. I’d describe myself as somebody who always puts the country first and party second.” (reported in the Telegraph).
Seems our stern letter did the trick: he’s gone. That’ll learn them: you don’t mess with the Socialist Party….
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‘“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.”’
There is an interesting argument to be had about the role of antiquity and the imaginary Roman Empire in justifying the British Empire (and today it emerges in some of the fash right who look back to Rome).
The Wall did not ‘keep the barbarian’s out’ – I read somewhere it was as much about tax and regulating trade as anything. Likewise, ‘unconquered Scotland’ forms part of the imaginary ideology of national identity that is worth picking at a few threads of.
So, first off, it’s for an entire area, not just Hadrian’s Wall
This is from the scoping document that prompted the post:
“Note: There is no agreed definition as to what Decolonisation means for museums and it can often be misrepresented or misunderstood. Here we use the term to describe how we can acknowledge that the origins of collections might be connected to the acts of colonisation of other countries, and how we can ensure these stories are not overlooked. It also acknowledges that decolonisation is about addressing institutional power structures.”
“The history of the collections at the Great North Museum: Hancock (GNM) spans over 250 years. This means that a number of our objects are inextricably linked with Britain’s colonial past and systemic racism. We acknowledge this and are working towards using these collections in an equitable and just way. ”
A key point (from the job ad): “Fee: Up to £5,700 including VAT and travel. This work is offered as a freelance contract, for a fixed fee including VAT and all expenses. The appointed individual will be responsible for all tax, national insurance, etc. This equates to approximately 12 days’ work.”
Considering they have an ethnography collection, and a maritime history collection, it is probably worth those 12 days of sitting, talking to collection specialists and formulating a strategy.
The Daily Mail are lying scum, who knew?
Stories of internment/filtration camps are starting to come out (standard counter-insurgency practice):
“For those who repeatedly breached the prohibition on speaking and moving, the punishment became more severe. Israeli guards would sometimes take a prisoner to an area outside the enclosure and beat him aggressively, according to two whistleblowers and al-Ran. A whistleblower who worked as a guard said he saw a man emerge from a beating with his teeth, and some bones, apparently broken.”
This form of abuse has been recognised as falling short of torture by https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-181585%22]} but is clearly abusive and degrading.
