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Bob Jamieson @[email protected] · 2026-05-07 · 18:12 UTC

Harry's Last Stand

The First Day of the Long Peace
May 8, 1945
JM Smith

"The last week of war before the long peace was chaotic. The refugee encampment was off limits. However, I was part of a team that set up a food distribution tent near the shantytown of displaced Germans. We were told to look for SS soldiers and officers who might be hiding amongst the refugees. I never got sight of any."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/the-first-day-of-the-long-peace?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Claire McNab @[email protected] · 2026-04-20 · 17:51 UTC

Yet even that is not enough. Successive Labour leaders enabled and indulged #Mandelson, despite clear evidence of trouble. #Kinnock first promoted Mandelson. #JohnSmith wisely shunned Mandelson, but #Blair & #GordonBrown both brought #Mandelson into senior government posts, and even made him an #EUcommissioner.

This isn't about #OllyRobɓins, or Mandelson, or even Starmer & McSweeney. It's about 2 generations of thoroughly rotten politics in a major political party.

#ukpol

#mandelson #kinnock #johnsmith #blair #gordonbrown #eucommissioner

Bob Jamieson @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 13:43 UTC

Harry's Last Stand

“Are You Having It or Not?”
In the Shadows of the Welfare State
JM Smith

"On her first day in Britain, Friede encounters a country still shaped by war, scarcity, and the uneasy beginnings of something new, a social democratic Britain.
Before you is another chapter from The Green & Pleasant Land, which Harry Leslie Smith was working on at the time of his death."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/are-you-having-it-or-not?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #harryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #SocialDemocracy

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