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Posted on 14th May, 2024

Chinese resistance to the suppression of the truth

Anyone who visits China today and is interested in Chinese civilisation wants to know whether ‘it’ has survived the bludgeoning it has had since 1949. Can anything remain, after the …

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Posted on 7th March, 2024

Vassal State

Vassal State reveals the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain’s economy: how American business chiefs decide what we’re paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. …

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Posted on 3rd March, 2024

The fascination of Tom Sharpe

Whenever I saw a Tom Sharpe novel, I used to feel a shudder go through me. I felt that his sardonic, cruel and even bitter farces had no relation with …

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