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No. 1445 January 2025

JANUARY 2025 PDF

  • Editorial – The change of rulers in Syria

  • Pathfinders – The next big thing

  • Hobson’s choice

  • Cooking the Books 1 – A fuss about NICs

  • Halo Halo / Tiny tips

  • Material World – Will capitalism implode?

  • Big Tech and the state

  • How we live and how we might live (part 5)

  • What is socialism?

  • Fake socialism

  • John Prescott: a Labour man through and through

  • Cooking the Books 2 – Einstein got it right

  • Film Review – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

  • Proper Gander – The latest celebrity to be accused

  • Book reviews – Hannah, Corbyn/McCluskey, Saini

  • 50 Years Ago – The fat of the land

  • Action Replay – Make sport great again?

  • January 2025 events

  • Party news

  • Life and Times – A letter to my son

3 Replies to “Life and Times – A letter to my son”

  1. Mike Ballard says:
    January 3, 2025 at 7:40 am

    Thanks so much for printing this most valuable magazine.

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    1. ZJW says:
      January 10, 2025 at 1:05 pm

      You had better write ‘(of Australia)’ after your name when you comment here lest you be mistaken for the other one.

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      1. Mike Ballard says:
        January 25, 2025 at 8:19 am

        I live in Perth, Australia. More about me here:

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