#harryslaststand — Public Fediverse posts
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Harry's Last Stand
Their Marriage Wasn’t an Easy Ride. But It Had Been Their Ride.
JM Smith"Today would have been my parents’ 79th wedding anniversary. They lived together as man and wife for 51 years, and considering the generation they came from, it was a good stretch. Mum died from cancer when she was seventy-one, in 1999.
Her last living act was to kiss my Dad before dying."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Their Marriage Wasn’t an Easy Ride. But It Had Been Their Ride.
JM Smith"Today would have been my parents’ 79th wedding anniversary. They lived together as man and wife for 51 years, and considering the generation they came from, it was a good stretch. Mum died from cancer when she was seventy-one, in 1999.
Her last living act was to kiss my Dad before dying."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Their Marriage Wasn’t an Easy Ride. But It Had Been Their Ride.
JM Smith"Today would have been my parents’ 79th wedding anniversary. They lived together as man and wife for 51 years, and considering the generation they came from, it was a good stretch. Mum died from cancer when she was seventy-one, in 1999.
Her last living act was to kiss my Dad before dying."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Their Marriage Wasn’t an Easy Ride. But It Had Been Their Ride.
JM Smith"Today would have been my parents’ 79th wedding anniversary. They lived together as man and wife for 51 years, and considering the generation they came from, it was a good stretch. Mum died from cancer when she was seventy-one, in 1999.
Her last living act was to kiss my Dad before dying."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Their Marriage Wasn’t an Easy Ride. But It Had Been Their Ride.
JM Smith"Today would have been my parents’ 79th wedding anniversary. They lived together as man and wife for 51 years, and considering the generation they came from, it was a good stretch. Mum died from cancer when she was seventy-one, in 1999.
Her last living act was to kiss my Dad before dying."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Hamburg, the city in the shadow of the Michel
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s second volume in his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy. It is a portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupation soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
Hamburg, the city in the shadow of the Michel
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s second volume in his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy. It is a portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupation soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
Hamburg, the city in the shadow of the Michel
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s second volume in his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy. It is a portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupation soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
Hamburg, the city in the shadow of the Michel
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s second volume in his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy. It is a portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupation soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
Hamburg, the city in the shadow of the Michel
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s second volume in his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy. It is a portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupation soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
A Sign Hung Around His Neck Which Read: Coward
JM Smith"There are no working-class memoirs from Britain’s occupation force in Germany’s second-largest city, Hamburg, apart from my dad’s Love Among the Ruins. It’s a brilliant read about life observed from the lower ranks when hope was reborn from the ashes of war."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
A Sign Hung Around His Neck Which Read: Coward
JM Smith"There are no working-class memoirs from Britain’s occupation force in Germany’s second-largest city, Hamburg, apart from my dad’s Love Among the Ruins. It’s a brilliant read about life observed from the lower ranks when hope was reborn from the ashes of war."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
A Sign Hung Around His Neck Which Read: Coward
JM Smith"There are no working-class memoirs from Britain’s occupation force in Germany’s second-largest city, Hamburg, apart from my dad’s Love Among the Ruins. It’s a brilliant read about life observed from the lower ranks when hope was reborn from the ashes of war."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
A Sign Hung Around His Neck Which Read: Coward
JM Smith"There are no working-class memoirs from Britain’s occupation force in Germany’s second-largest city, Hamburg, apart from my dad’s Love Among the Ruins. It’s a brilliant read about life observed from the lower ranks when hope was reborn from the ashes of war."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
A Sign Hung Around His Neck Which Read: Coward
JM Smith"There are no working-class memoirs from Britain’s occupation force in Germany’s second-largest city, Hamburg, apart from my dad’s Love Among the Ruins. It’s a brilliant read about life observed from the lower ranks when hope was reborn from the ashes of war."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #WorldWar2
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Harry's Last Stand
A Summer in the Ruins of Troy
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War. It is the second volume of his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy.
In the first volume of the trilogy, my father writes about his early memories from the slums of Yorkshire."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
A Summer in the Ruins of Troy
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War. It is the second volume of his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy.
In the first volume of the trilogy, my father writes about his early memories from the slums of Yorkshire."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
A Summer in the Ruins of Troy
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War. It is the second volume of his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy.
In the first volume of the trilogy, my father writes about his early memories from the slums of Yorkshire."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
A Summer in the Ruins of Troy
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War. It is the second volume of his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy.
In the first volume of the trilogy, my father writes about his early memories from the slums of Yorkshire."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
A Summer in the Ruins of Troy
JM Smith"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War. It is the second volume of his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy.
In the first volume of the trilogy, my father writes about his early memories from the slums of Yorkshire."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #WorldWar2 #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
Content Creation: A Marathon Where Nothing, Not Even You, Endures
JM Smith"If you haven’t got the memo yet, this is dystopia, and it’s worsening by the day. Neoliberalism requires us to believe there is a rational off-ramp from all of this — genocide in Gaza, war with Iran, the starvation blockade of Cuba, a perpetual cost-of-living crisis, the environment dying, the monetisation of every human interaction,"
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Harry's Last Stand
Content Creation: A Marathon Where Nothing, Not Even You, Endures
JM Smith"If you haven’t got the memo yet, this is dystopia, and it’s worsening by the day. Neoliberalism requires us to believe there is a rational off-ramp from all of this — genocide in Gaza, war with Iran, the starvation blockade of Cuba, a perpetual cost-of-living crisis, the environment dying, the monetisation of every human interaction,"
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Harry's Last Stand
Content Creation: A Marathon Where Nothing, Not Even You, Endures
JM Smith"If you haven’t got the memo yet, this is dystopia, and it’s worsening by the day. Neoliberalism requires us to believe there is a rational off-ramp from all of this — genocide in Gaza, war with Iran, the starvation blockade of Cuba, a perpetual cost-of-living crisis, the environment dying, the monetisation of every human interaction,"
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Harry's Last Stand
Content Creation: A Marathon Where Nothing, Not Even You, Endures
JM Smith"If you haven’t got the memo yet, this is dystopia, and it’s worsening by the day. Neoliberalism requires us to believe there is a rational off-ramp from all of this — genocide in Gaza, war with Iran, the starvation blockade of Cuba, a perpetual cost-of-living crisis, the environment dying, the monetisation of every human interaction,"
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Harry's Last Stand
Content Creation: A Marathon Where Nothing, Not Even You, Endures
JM Smith"If you haven’t got the memo yet, this is dystopia, and it’s worsening by the day. Neoliberalism requires us to believe there is a rational off-ramp from all of this — genocide in Gaza, war with Iran, the starvation blockade of Cuba, a perpetual cost-of-living crisis, the environment dying, the monetisation of every human interaction,"
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes Grit and Luck to Survive History
JM Smith"My grandmother, Maria Theresa Edelmann, born 131 years ago today, survived the worst of the 19th and 20th centuries by the skin of her teeth. She was the illegitimate daughter of a rope maker who wanted nothing to do with the family he created in Paderborn, Germany. He abandoned them, but Maria’s mother found another man willing to marry her,"
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes Grit and Luck to Survive History
JM Smith"My grandmother, Maria Theresa Edelmann, born 131 years ago today, survived the worst of the 19th and 20th centuries by the skin of her teeth. She was the illegitimate daughter of a rope maker who wanted nothing to do with the family he created in Paderborn, Germany. He abandoned them, but Maria’s mother found another man willing to marry her,"
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes Grit and Luck to Survive History
JM Smith"My grandmother, Maria Theresa Edelmann, born 131 years ago today, survived the worst of the 19th and 20th centuries by the skin of her teeth. She was the illegitimate daughter of a rope maker who wanted nothing to do with the family he created in Paderborn, Germany. He abandoned them, but Maria’s mother found another man willing to marry her,"
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes Grit and Luck to Survive History
JM Smith"My grandmother, Maria Theresa Edelmann, born 131 years ago today, survived the worst of the 19th and 20th centuries by the skin of her teeth. She was the illegitimate daughter of a rope maker who wanted nothing to do with the family he created in Paderborn, Germany. He abandoned them, but Maria’s mother found another man willing to marry her,"
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes Grit and Luck to Survive History
JM Smith"My grandmother, Maria Theresa Edelmann, born 131 years ago today, survived the worst of the 19th and 20th centuries by the skin of her teeth. She was the illegitimate daughter of a rope maker who wanted nothing to do with the family he created in Paderborn, Germany. He abandoned them, but Maria’s mother found another man willing to marry her,"
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Harry's Last Stand
She Exhaled Racism Like Cigarette Smoke
JM Smith"It was a few days ago, in an afternoon’s summer heat, that I walked across a grocery store parking lot. I have done it hundreds of times before, incident-free. This time, there was commotion: a middle-aged grocery store manager was shooing away a homeless man at the curbside."
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Harry's Last Stand
She Exhaled Racism Like Cigarette Smoke
JM Smith"It was a few days ago, in an afternoon’s summer heat, that I walked across a grocery store parking lot. I have done it hundreds of times before, incident-free. This time, there was commotion: a middle-aged grocery store manager was shooing away a homeless man at the curbside."
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Harry's Last Stand
She Exhaled Racism Like Cigarette Smoke
JM Smith"It was a few days ago, in an afternoon’s summer heat, that I walked across a grocery store parking lot. I have done it hundreds of times before, incident-free. This time, there was commotion: a middle-aged grocery store manager was shooing away a homeless man at the curbside."
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Harry's Last Stand
She Exhaled Racism Like Cigarette Smoke
JM Smith"It was a few days ago, in an afternoon’s summer heat, that I walked across a grocery store parking lot. I have done it hundreds of times before, incident-free. This time, there was commotion: a middle-aged grocery store manager was shooing away a homeless man at the curbside."
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Harry's Last Stand
She Exhaled Racism Like Cigarette Smoke
JM Smith"It was a few days ago, in an afternoon’s summer heat, that I walked across a grocery store parking lot. I have done it hundreds of times before, incident-free. This time, there was commotion: a middle-aged grocery store manager was shooing away a homeless man at the curbside."
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Harry's Last Stand
"It's going to kill this land," he said.
JM Smith"I have the insomnia again, so it is early morning when I write this. There are only a few swigs of July left in its bottle. Its dregs are brackish on the palate from the heat domes and wildfires in northern Canada, as well as across Europe. Much of England is in drought, and Europe’s rivers are so parched"
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Harry's Last Stand
"It's going to kill this land," he said.
JM Smith"I have the insomnia again, so it is early morning when I write this. There are only a few swigs of July left in its bottle. Its dregs are brackish on the palate from the heat domes and wildfires in northern Canada, as well as across Europe. Much of England is in drought, and Europe’s rivers are so parched"
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Harry's Last Stand
"It's going to kill this land," he said.
JM Smith"I have the insomnia again, so it is early morning when I write this. There are only a few swigs of July left in its bottle. Its dregs are brackish on the palate from the heat domes and wildfires in northern Canada, as well as across Europe. Much of England is in drought, and Europe’s rivers are so parched"
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Harry's Last Stand
"It's going to kill this land," he said.
JM Smith"I have the insomnia again, so it is early morning when I write this. There are only a few swigs of July left in its bottle. Its dregs are brackish on the palate from the heat domes and wildfires in northern Canada, as well as across Europe. Much of England is in drought, and Europe’s rivers are so parched"
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Harry's Last Stand
"It's going to kill this land," he said.
JM Smith"I have the insomnia again, so it is early morning when I write this. There are only a few swigs of July left in its bottle. Its dregs are brackish on the palate from the heat domes and wildfires in northern Canada, as well as across Europe. Much of England is in drought, and Europe’s rivers are so parched"
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Harry's Last Stand
Staying On
JM Smith"Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their authors or publishers.
Curious, I searched the database of works listed in the lawsuit. To my astonishment, I found my dad’s first book, 1923, among the titles that had allegedly been scraped."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/staying-on?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
Staying On
JM Smith"Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their authors or publishers.
Curious, I searched the database of works listed in the lawsuit. To my astonishment, I found my dad’s first book, 1923, among the titles that had allegedly been scraped."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/staying-on?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
Staying On
JM Smith"Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their authors or publishers.
Curious, I searched the database of works listed in the lawsuit. To my astonishment, I found my dad’s first book, 1923, among the titles that had allegedly been scraped."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/staying-on?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
Staying On
JM Smith"Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their authors or publishers.
Curious, I searched the database of works listed in the lawsuit. To my astonishment, I found my dad’s first book, 1923, among the titles that had allegedly been scraped."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/staying-on?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
Staying On
JM Smith"Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their authors or publishers.
Curious, I searched the database of works listed in the lawsuit. To my astonishment, I found my dad’s first book, 1923, among the titles that had allegedly been scraped."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/staying-on?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
Conditions of Surrender: At the Dawn of the Welfare State
JM Smith"I am always very appreciative of my Substack subscribers. People only have so much spare time, and the fact that you spend some of your leisure moments reading excerpts from my father’s writing and life, or my own, is deeply humbling.
This platform has been a good place to store and share these writings, especially because my health is problematic."
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Harry's Last Stand
Conditions of Surrender: At the Dawn of the Welfare State
JM Smith"I am always very appreciative of my Substack subscribers. People only have so much spare time, and the fact that you spend some of your leisure moments reading excerpts from my father’s writing and life, or my own, is deeply humbling.
This platform has been a good place to store and share these writings, especially because my health is problematic."
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Harry's Last Stand
Conditions of Surrender: At the Dawn of the Welfare State
JM Smith"I am always very appreciative of my Substack subscribers. People only have so much spare time, and the fact that you spend some of your leisure moments reading excerpts from my father’s writing and life, or my own, is deeply humbling.
This platform has been a good place to store and share these writings, especially because my health is problematic."
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Harry's Last Stand
Conditions of Surrender: At the Dawn of the Welfare State
JM Smith"I am always very appreciative of my Substack subscribers. People only have so much spare time, and the fact that you spend some of your leisure moments reading excerpts from my father’s writing and life, or my own, is deeply humbling.
This platform has been a good place to store and share these writings, especially because my health is problematic."
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Harry's Last Stand
Conditions of Surrender: At the Dawn of the Welfare State
JM Smith"I am always very appreciative of my Substack subscribers. People only have so much spare time, and the fact that you spend some of your leisure moments reading excerpts from my father’s writing and life, or my own, is deeply humbling.
This platform has been a good place to store and share these writings, especially because my health is problematic."
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Harry's Last Stand
Chasing Fool's Gold at the End of Neoliberalism's Rainbow
JM Smith"I was in my early forties twenty-one years ago. My beard was spotted with grey as if I’d been painting and the brush spattered. But I didn’t feel old because I had boundless energy for work. I was in the spirits industry and chasing a diminishing pot of gold promised at the end of neoliberalism’s rainbow."
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Harry's Last Stand
Chasing Fool's Gold at the End of Neoliberalism's Rainbow
JM Smith"I was in my early forties twenty-one years ago. My beard was spotted with grey as if I’d been painting and the brush spattered. But I didn’t feel old because I had boundless energy for work. I was in the spirits industry and chasing a diminishing pot of gold promised at the end of neoliberalism’s rainbow."
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Harry's Last Stand
Chasing Fool's Gold at the End of Neoliberalism's Rainbow
JM Smith"I was in my early forties twenty-one years ago. My beard was spotted with grey as if I’d been painting and the brush spattered. But I didn’t feel old because I had boundless energy for work. I was in the spirits industry and chasing a diminishing pot of gold promised at the end of neoliberalism’s rainbow."
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Harry's Last Stand
Chasing Fool's Gold at the End of Neoliberalism's Rainbow
JM Smith"I was in my early forties twenty-one years ago. My beard was spotted with grey as if I’d been painting and the brush spattered. But I didn’t feel old because I had boundless energy for work. I was in the spirits industry and chasing a diminishing pot of gold promised at the end of neoliberalism’s rainbow."
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Harry's Last Stand
Chasing Fool's Gold at the End of Neoliberalism's Rainbow
JM Smith"I was in my early forties twenty-one years ago. My beard was spotted with grey as if I’d been painting and the brush spattered. But I didn’t feel old because I had boundless energy for work. I was in the spirits industry and chasing a diminishing pot of gold promised at the end of neoliberalism’s rainbow."
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Harry's Last Stand
Neoliberalism Bins Everything of Value
JM Smith"During the Brexit referendum, I once saw the Liberal Democrat life peer and political commentator Paddy Ashdown on an overcrowded weekend train to Cornwall during a June heatwave. It was standing room only with weekend holidaymakers and foreign tourists. My dad was in a mobility wheelchair, pushed up against luggage stacked against a wall."
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Harry's Last Stand
Neoliberalism Bins Everything of Value
JM Smith"During the Brexit referendum, I once saw the Liberal Democrat life peer and political commentator Paddy Ashdown on an overcrowded weekend train to Cornwall during a June heatwave. It was standing room only with weekend holidaymakers and foreign tourists. My dad was in a mobility wheelchair, pushed up against luggage stacked against a wall."
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Harry's Last Stand
Neoliberalism Bins Everything of Value
JM Smith"During the Brexit referendum, I once saw the Liberal Democrat life peer and political commentator Paddy Ashdown on an overcrowded weekend train to Cornwall during a June heatwave. It was standing room only with weekend holidaymakers and foreign tourists. My dad was in a mobility wheelchair, pushed up against luggage stacked against a wall."
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Harry's Last Stand
Neoliberalism Bins Everything of Value
JM Smith"During the Brexit referendum, I once saw the Liberal Democrat life peer and political commentator Paddy Ashdown on an overcrowded weekend train to Cornwall during a June heatwave. It was standing room only with weekend holidaymakers and foreign tourists. My dad was in a mobility wheelchair, pushed up against luggage stacked against a wall."
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Harry's Last Stand
Neoliberalism Bins Everything of Value
JM Smith"During the Brexit referendum, I once saw the Liberal Democrat life peer and political commentator Paddy Ashdown on an overcrowded weekend train to Cornwall during a June heatwave. It was standing room only with weekend holidaymakers and foreign tourists. My dad was in a mobility wheelchair, pushed up against luggage stacked against a wall."