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Wow.

This sort of stuff usually only happens with newly elected Reform councillors. I wonder if the electorate will ‘punish’ them for putting them through the election circus again so soon after the last one?

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Did Michael Chessum get elected for the Greens?

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Looking at the three results, you have to wonder if ‘Shake It Up’ actually cost the Greens a couple of seats.

Any idea why ‘Shake It Up’ polled so well? . . . in relative terms, I mean.

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I’ve probably posted this one before on the thread. If I have, you can enjoy it again:

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Just stumbled across this new song and new artist (new to me at least).

Good tune and excellent lyrics . . . which I’m sure will remind you of a very famous poem from the 1930s:

Edited to add. Here’s the lyrics:

Someone’s always first to go
That’s what they do
They start out with the media and the news
They target all the people with different views
And if you’re not the next in line
You will be soon

Cause everybody pays the price
And you will too
Whether you’re the radical
Or the fool
You might laugh when they come for me
But when they do
No one will be left to care
When it’s you

And you might not be next
But your day is gonna come
You don’t have to guess
It’s as good as done

Whether it’s the immigrants or the Jews
There’s always an enemy for them to choose
It starts off with the socialists
And the schools
Until one day the enemy starts to look like you

And then you cry for help
But no one’s there
Cause there’s nobody with a spine left
For you to scare
And when they come for you
You better pray
That when you go to lick the boot, they don’t put it in your face

You might not be next
But your day is gonna come
You don’t have to guess
It’s as good as done
Now everybody else is gone
There’s no one else for you to blame
When there’s nobody left
You’re next
You’re next
You’re next

No spine
No soul
No shame
No reason
Didn’t need em
Didn’t know it
Didn’t see it
Don’t believe it
Didn’t matter when it happened cause it wasn’t to me
I’ll live dumb and die as a casualty

You might not be next
But your day is coming soon
You don’t have to guess
It’s as good as done

Now everybody else is gone
There’s no one else for you to blame
There’s nobody left
You’re Next

You’re Next
You’re Next
You’re Next

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Is that the same John O’Neill who was in the Lancaster Branch of the SPGB in the 1970s?

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An excellent period for the Standard.

Well worth Forum members checking it out.

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If anyone wants to see what films have been reviewed in the Standard down the years, they should click on the following link:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/film-reviews.html

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A short post to mention that the pages for the regular, longstanding Socialist Standard columns have been updated on the blog. The pages provide easy access to all the individual columns in chronological order:

Cooking the Books column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/cooking-books.html

Material World column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/material-world-column.html

Pathfinders column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/pathfinders-column.html

[imposs1904]

Nuts that this was only an album track on The Gift.

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Moo,

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll make a note of it.

In other news, a bit later than usual, the list of the 21 most popular articles on the blog in 2025:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2026/01/january-february-i-dont-understand.html

Please click away.

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‘It’s Clichéd to Be Cynical at Christmas* . . .’

I posted this last year but why not post it again one year on? Think of it as a re-gifting.

A selection of Christmas-related articles that have appeared in the Socialist Standard (and elsewhere) down the years. 

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-cliched-to-be-cynical-at-christmas.html

 

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Sad to read about the death of the radical filmmaker Peter Watkins at the age of 90.

Best known for the banned BBC documentary The War Game, some of his work has reviewed in the pages of the Socialist Standard.

Click on the links for the reviews:

Peter Watkins: A Revolutionary Film-Maker (2015)
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/peter-watkins-revolutionary-film-maker.html

Peter Watkins: A Revolutionary Film-Maker (2015) – part 2
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/peter-watkins-revolutionary-film-maker.html

Review of The War Game – 1966
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-war-game-1966.html

Another review of The War Game – 1980
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-war-game-1980.html

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This novel was published a couple of years ago:

Trotsky in New York, 1917

Can anyone top that? I’ll doff my cap if someone provides proof of a concept album centred around Nadezhda Krupskaya’s three weeks in Kettering in 1911.

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A bit of fun with regards to Lenin in London.

From the 1974 British TV series, Fall of Eagles, Trevor Griffiths episode, Absolute Beginners, about the Russian revolutionaries in London at the turn of the 20th century. Patrick Stewart as Lenin, Michael Kitchen as Trotsky and Paul Eddington as Plekhanov.

For those of you who don’t know him, Trevor Griffiths is best known for co-writing the Hollywood film, Reds, with Warren Beatty.

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