Britain was pretty skint in 1945, but our grandparents managed – even after six years of war and the ‘Hungry Thirties’ – …
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If you haven’t yet read London Belongs To Me, Norman Collins’ epic tale of a south-of-the-river street and its inhabitants, now might be a …
Established May Day 1974, News From Nowhere celebrated forty years in business in 2014. Forty years of supplying the people of Liverpool …
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The words of the prophets are written on the (Subway) walls
by John Maguireby John MaguireSometimes a simple statement, a simple phrase, can have maximum impact. Less can indeed be sometimes more. A match when struck and …
On the 27th January 2015 as I began to organise my thoughts for this piece, it was 100 days until the election. …
In the coming year, I really want someone to stand up – and I really hope it will be Ed Miliband – …
The Citizens Advice Bureau celebrated 75 years of giving assistance this September. Not bad for an agency that was originally only established …
Recently returned from a deliciously lazy holiday, during which I swapped the noise of Tokyo for a room with a tinkling river …
Bankers, the targets for so much vilification, are not usually noted as great philosophers. But perhaps they have been judged unfairly if …
At first, like Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, some of us could confess to having had mixed feelings about the Occupy movement. …
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