#john-smith — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #john-smith, aggregated by home.social.
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Harry's Last Stand
A Bank Holiday Weekend During an Age of Robber Barons
JM Smith"Summer is sinking fast by the bow into the vast, crisp ocean of Autumn. The season’s last Bank Holiday weekend is here, and yet few of us have the luxury of putting the daily grind on a time-out.
Nothing feels the same anymore because it isn’t. The weather has been extreme, and so have our politics, leaving little space for rest or escape."
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Harry's Last Stand
A Bank Holiday Weekend During an Age of Robber Barons
JM Smith"Summer is sinking fast by the bow into the vast, crisp ocean of Autumn. The season’s last Bank Holiday weekend is here, and yet few of us have the luxury of putting the daily grind on a time-out.
Nothing feels the same anymore because it isn’t. The weather has been extreme, and so have our politics, leaving little space for rest or escape."
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Harry's Last Stand
A Bank Holiday Weekend During an Age of Robber Barons
JM Smith"Summer is sinking fast by the bow into the vast, crisp ocean of Autumn. The season’s last Bank Holiday weekend is here, and yet few of us have the luxury of putting the daily grind on a time-out.
Nothing feels the same anymore because it isn’t. The weather has been extreme, and so have our politics, leaving little space for rest or escape."
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Harry's Last Stand
A Bank Holiday Weekend During an Age of Robber Barons
JM Smith"Summer is sinking fast by the bow into the vast, crisp ocean of Autumn. The season’s last Bank Holiday weekend is here, and yet few of us have the luxury of putting the daily grind on a time-out.
Nothing feels the same anymore because it isn’t. The weather has been extreme, and so have our politics, leaving little space for rest or escape."
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Harry's Last Stand
A Bank Holiday Weekend During an Age of Robber Barons
JM Smith"Summer is sinking fast by the bow into the vast, crisp ocean of Autumn. The season’s last Bank Holiday weekend is here, and yet few of us have the luxury of putting the daily grind on a time-out.
Nothing feels the same anymore because it isn’t. The weather has been extreme, and so have our politics, leaving little space for rest or escape."
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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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,"