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Tag Archives: UK Labour Party
FAQ: Antigone1984 and Brexit
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 January 2019 As the Brexit (Britain’s Exit from the European Union) train heads at warp … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Brexit, Daniel Hannan, European Union, Hayek, Jeremy Corbyn, Philip Hammond, Steve Bannon, Theresa May, Tony Blair, UK Labour Party, UK Tory Party
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EU sticks it to UK
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 24 February 2018 It is of existential importance to the European Union that the secession of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Politics, UK
Tagged Brexit, Daniel Hannan, Donald Tusk, Emperor Charlemagne, King Offa of Mercia, Soviet Union, UK Labour Party, United States of Europe, Wofgang Schäuble
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Why the UK does not need the EU crutch
4 July 2016 “[Je refuse] la création d’une zone de libre-échange de l’Europe occidentale, en attendant la zone atlantique, laquelle ôterait à notre continent sa propre personnalité.” Le général de Gaulle, 1967. “I refuse to accept the creation of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Politics, Portugal, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged bisphenols, Blanketeers, Brexit, Chartists, Combination Acts, European Economic Community, European Union, Factory Acts, General de Gaulle, herbicide roundup, Luddites, neonicotinoids, Peterloo, pollination, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TUC, UK Labour Party, universal suffrage
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CONTRA UNIONEM EUROPAEAM
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Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Literature, Luxembourg, Military, Philosophy, Politics, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Big Bang, Brexit, Dostoevsky, F.R. Leavis, Henry V, J.G. Herder, Jeremy Corbyn, King Offa, Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, Rena Doulou, St George, Syriza, TISA, TTIP, UK Labour Party, William Shakespeare
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Anyone for Uruguay?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 May 2015 CONTRA SPEM “Tout le malheur des hommes vient de l’espérance.” Assertion by Albert … Continue reading
Posted in China, Europe, Iceland, Politics, Russia, UK, UN, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Confucius, cultivate one's garden, Epicurus of Samos, groundless optimism, Harold Stearns, Left Unity, Malcolm Cowley, Pasok, Podemos, President Coolidge, President Harding, Roger Carpenter of Cambridge University, Syriza, Taoism, the end justifies the means, UK Labour Party, Voltaire, wishful thinking
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None of the above
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 May 2015 NONE OF THE ABOVE With the UK parliamentary elections due to take place … Continue reading
Crystal-ball gazing
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Posted in Europe, Politics, UK
Tagged Brussels, EU, Scottish National Party, Tory Party, UK Green Party, UK Labour Party, UKIP
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Great minds think alike
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 November 2013 Nice to have one’s standpoint confirmed by the great and the good. Antigone1984 … Continue reading
The market rules, OK?
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Posted in Europe, Poland, UK
Tagged capitalism, Chris Bryant, European Union, free movement of labour, market economy, UK election 2015, UK Labour Party
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Caught red-handed with smoking gun
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 March 2013 UK LABOUR PARTY LEADER CONDONES SLAVE LABOUR For a long time now the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Cain and Abel, Edward Miliband, Margaret Thatcher, slave labour, Tony Blair, triangulation, UK Labour Party, workfare
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