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No. 1456 December 2025

DECEMBER 2025 PDF

  • Editorial – Labour sinks even lower

  • Pathfinders – Cheating the reaper

  • Letter – Thomas Piketty

  • Letter – Technofeudalism

  • Cooking the Books 1 – How would you like your cut?

  • Halo Halo / Tiny Tips

  • Material World – Life without money

  • Mamdani’s election no victory for socialism

  • Popularity

  • Violence and war: Are they inevitable? The long view

  • Strangers in our home world

  • Newport Rising?

  • Obituary – Christopher Butler

  • The Rat, the cage, and capitalism: how environment shapes addiction

  • Letter – Free speech

  • Cooking the Books 2 – Capitalism – an irrational system

  • Proper Gander – Manipulated by the Monoform

  • Book Reviews – Blakely, Bollier, Shuringa

  • 50 Years Ago – I.S. stand for – confusion

  • Action Replay – Conversion problems

  • December 2025 events

  • Life and Times – Bob Dylan in Swansea

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