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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 17m

E P Thompson’s Time Work Discipline in the 24/7 age & plans to extend pub opening hours

E P Thompson’s Time Work Discipline in the 24/7 age & plans to extend pub hours EP Thompson’s essay on Time-Work Discipline was published in Past and Present 38/1 December 1967. It speaks to ve…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1h

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Socialist History Seminar. Mon 20th Oct Dilan Tulsiani, Traditions of Dissent. The British Section of the League Against Imperialism

Monday 20th October 5.30pm on Zoom Dilan Tulsiani ‘Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism’. Free on Zoom. Booking essentia…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 16h

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Times letter writers give thumbs down to Jenrick on ‘activist’ judges and racism

E P Thompson in his collection Writing By Candlelight saw Times letter writers at representative of provincial and often reactionary views. Thompson was determinedly provincial himself (from Halifa…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15h

Comparisons between Trump's US & Nazi Germany in the later 1930s are overblow. However comparisons to the pre-Nazi takeover 1930-32 may be closer to the mark
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Right-wing historians & history. Niall Ferguson on Donald Trump,dictatorship & Nazi Germany

The above is an extract from a long piece in the Times by Prof Niall Ferguson about whether Donald Trump is a dictator or not. Ferguson thinks he isn’t and I agree but we come at it from diff…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2h

PFL is a Faragism. Proper F*cking Lunch

K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12h

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Starmer meets Modi for a PFL. The full menu

Starmer has been in India meeting Modi to discuss trade deals. The outcome seems to have been mainly more discussions. Change can be frustratingly slow even in a 24 hour news cycle The real event w…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 11h

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12h

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Starmer meets Modi for a PFL. The full menu

Starmer has been in India meeting Modi to discuss trade deals. The outcome seems to have been mainly more discussions. Change can be frustratingly slow even in a 24 hour news cycle The real event w…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 13h

good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social taking on Reform's Zia Yusuf on Question Time. Polanski is on the Beard of Autumn shortlist. Voting opens on Saturday. Can he shave Gary Neville?👇
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Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025

Beard Liberation Front contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social 9th October Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal …

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15h

Comparisons between Trump's US & Nazi Germany in the later 1930s are overblow. However comparisons to the pre-Nazi takeover 1930-32 may be closer to the mark
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Right-wing historians & history. Niall Ferguson on Donald Trump,dictatorship & Nazi Germany

The above is an extract from a long piece in the Times by Prof Niall Ferguson about whether Donald Trump is a dictator or not. Ferguson thinks he isn’t and I agree but we come at it from diff…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15h

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Right-wing historians & history. Niall Ferguson on Donald Trump,dictatorship & Nazi Germany

The above is an extract from a long piece in the Times by Prof Niall Ferguson about whether Donald Trump is a dictator or not. Ferguson thinks he isn’t and I agree but we come at it from diff…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 16h

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Times letter writers give thumbs down to Jenrick on ‘activist’ judges and racism

E P Thompson in his collection Writing By Candlelight saw Times letter writers at representative of provincial and often reactionary views. Thompson was determinedly provincial himself (from Halifa…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 18h

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Badenoch conference speech: other parties offer beer, jam, lentils. The Tories offer gruel?

Kemi Badenoch’s speech to the Tory Conference on 8th October made headlines because of a pledge to abolish Stamp Duty in the unlikely event the Tories ever return to Office. Anyone who has pa…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 21h

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Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025

Beard Liberation Front contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social 9th October Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal …

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Me in today's @mstaronline.bsky.social on "Britishness" and #genocide...

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2d

William Cobbett's Freeborn Englishman of the 1820s & 30s saw Governments dictating what could be protested about & when as Un-British. Its no different in 2025
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Historically the Government telling people what they can & cannot protest about is UnBritish

Historically the Government telling people what they can and cannot protest about is UnBritish Both Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood’s have called peaceful protests on Palestine ‘UnBritish’. Given …

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenrick at Tory Conference: what he likes about Britain. Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone lager & Chris Woakes

A leader’s speech at a party conference is not complete without a list of things the speaker likes about Britain. Robert Jenrick is not officially the leader of the Tory Party and his confere…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2d

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MCC President on County Cricket, The Hundred & J K Galbraith

New President of the MCC Ed Smith quoted in the Times (6th Oct) on JK Galbraith on forecasters ‘those who don’t know & those who don’t know they don’t know’. He is…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Are you now or have you ever been Un-British?
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Times letter. From Un-British to Joe McCarthy’s Un-American

This letter appears in The Times, 8th October. Times letter writers in 2025 often appear to the left of the paper’s Editorial line (which is not to say they are on the left). E P Thompson in …

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Are you now or have you ever been Un-British?
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Times letter. From Un-British to Joe McCarthy’s Un-American

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Not quite as common as might be hoped. Decent West Coast ipa @trackbrewingco.bsky.social & Wayward Lane brewing (NY). via @popnhops.bsky.social

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Post Harvest Moon in the trees,central Cardiff to the accompianment of the police helicopter

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Note Harry Kane is out of the England men's team to play Wales on Thursday. Strained follicles apparently @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenrick at Tory Conference: what he likes about Britain. Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone lager & Chris Woakes

A leader’s speech at a party conference is not complete without a list of things the speaker likes about Britain. Robert Jenrick is not officially the leader of the Tory Party and his confere…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Times interview with the Chair of English & Welsh cricket (ECB) Richard Thompson. The T20 Blast is the FA Cup, while The Hundred is the Champions League (surely the EFL trophy?)