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What’s It All About?

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I landed on planet earth to the screams of my poor mother on Wednesday June 6th 1962 at 15:00, or 3pm in old money. “Never again”, she was heard to say afterwards, and like with most things she said, she meant it. I imagine that my father was in the betting shop at the time, as back in those days the Epsom Derby was run on a Wednesday, and it was a big event. Larkspur won the race under Neville Sellwood and trained by the Irish legend Vincent O’Brien, his first winner of six in the race down the years. I’m told that the midwives at Mowbray Maternity Hospital in Exeter were cursing me, as they had to miss this annual televisual feast to pull me kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties. I was a sickly child, to be honest. The flat my parents rented in St Leonards, a more upmarket district of the city, was in an old Victorian house. It was damp and cold…

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Chinese Burns

I am not a communist, but I am an anticapitalist As far as Communism goes, if you call a bunch of Capitalists selling off their country's assets for their own avaricious and political gain a "collapse", consider this: What about Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis of the 20th century, or the 2008 International Banking Crisis, whereby we are left paying the price, whilst the people who caused it still live it up in Kensington & Chelsea with their Oligarch mates. The fucking irony is that remaining so called Communist countries are now playing the Capitalist game better than the Imperialist dogs who call themselves Capitalists. If neither this country nor the US of Assholes can see that China is pissing over them, whilst they profess to be world leaders in that game, take my advice and learn to speak Chinese before it's too late. Africans have been for years ......... Banana republics I hear you cry! Well maybe so, but they are Chinese bananas.

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A Tale Of Two Cities

For those who do not dwell on the cruel and barbarous actions of the Stasi, what is now often forgotten is that the GDR also represented an effort to build a completely new and egalitarian society. Gender equality and equal pay for men and women were part of the GDR from the very beginning. The 1949 constitution was direct and very clear: “Men and women are equal.” A law introduced in 1950 ensured that women retained their rights after marriage and introduced financial support for mothers who devoted their time to looking after their children. This applied not only to married women but also to single mothers. It would be decades before equivalent legislation was enacted in the west. Even today, the pay gap between men and women remains significantly higher in the western part of unified Germany than in the eastern states. The pay gap between workers and managers was also significantly less in East Germany, and most housing areas included a mix of blue and…

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