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"China has thought control of the kind Stalin would have dreamed of..."

@paulmasonnews joins @GoldbergRadio on the podcast to discuss his new book - 'Reds, The Global History of Communism.'

Listen: https://t.co/4RWkL15yqR

Watch: https://t.co/RLyyemoU5j

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‘A Polar Bear on an Iceberg? Here’s This Picture of Catastrophe and You’ve Totally Depoliticised It’

By @Hardeep_Matharu

The climate crisis can’t be solved without a commitment to fighting injustice at the same time – Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, sat down with Hardeep Matharu to explain why

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https://t.co/mj7B4L0SS5

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"Killing 16-44 million people in a famine is not a great advert for Marxism Leninism..."

@paulmasonnews on the history of communism with @GoldbergRadio on the latest podcast.

Listen: https://t.co/4RWkL15yqR

Watch: https://t.co/03SeII0c42

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

So if a close associate of Fararge's is behind COR, why are so many invoices missing from their records?

What are they hiding?

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@josiahmortimer

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📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer

Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

🔗 https://t.co/rN9E45JW4m

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"China has thought control of the kind that Stalin would have dreamed of being able to exert..."

@paulmasonnews joins @GoldbergRadio on the podcast to discuss his new book 'Reds, The Global History of Communism.'

Listen: https://t.co/4RWkL15yqR

Watch: https://t.co/RLyyemoU5j

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As the government ponders ways to reduce prison numbers, here's an investigation by @GoldbergRadio into 'indeterminate sentences'.

These have kept some prisoners in jail for years beyond what their offence would normally justify.

https://t.co/MPPwf1Rkxf

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A ‘Politics of Nostalgism’ Stops Us Facing Up to the Future

Politicians would rather talk about a rosier, imagined past than tackle the stark realities of the here and now – it’s a vision going nowhere, writes @AdamBienkov

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https://t.co/T7EKOuz7Cm

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

“A ghost pollster, missing invoices, and £645,000 of unanswered questions ... the kind of dirty money loophole that gives politics a bad name. If Reform can’t tell us who they’re paying or why the paperwork keeps disappearing, that’s not an accident"
https://t.co/AsDThrHrtS

[The Finance Guy @OneFinanceGuy]

🧾 COR invoice in the Electoral Comission database: "polling and message testing for creative work"
🔎 Chris Bruni-Lowe's book quote: "my work with focus group and polling... then I created the Brexit Party slogan..."
Bruni-Lowe says Farage contacted him in Nov/2018. In Feb/2019 the Brexit Party is formally created. Apr/19 comes the first bungle from Harborne, £3m. In May/2019 COR starts getting paid.
Bruni-Lowe also worked in Montenegro in the pro-EU and pro-crypto PES/Spajic campaign, allegedly paid by George Cottrell, who also would have paid for advisory from Gawain Towler and media production by Harry Parslow - both Reform associates.

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"We have to imagine a life beyond capitalism..."

@paulmasonnews - author of 'Reds: The Global History of Communism' - joins @GoldbergRadio on the latest @BylineTimes pod.

Listen: https://t.co/51TNICz703

Watch: https://t.co/zTGChvUFWy

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📚 CULTURE & IDEAS (Edition 89)

What Burnham’s Got Wrong About Thatcherism

The Prime Minister misunderstands exactly why four decades of neoliberalism have failed the UK, writes Simon Nixon

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https://t.co/NiD8EhA2dT

[Sebastian Kraemer @sebkraemer]

'The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty’

 @iainoverton @BylineTimes
https://t.co/L8yabwYnhn

[@Reddsab😋 @Reddsab]

Foreign money influencing British elections..

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📌 ICYMI

Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster

By @josiahmortimer

Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

https://t.co/yasfKzkAqn

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"I was never starry eyed about either the Soviet Union or China."

@paulmasonnews discusses his new history of communism on the podcast with @GoldbergRadio

Listen: https://t.co/51TNICz703

Watch: https://t.co/lW94KCWuRv

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

I had a great chat with @GoldbergRadio about the Pythagoras, Lenin and Xi Jin Ping 👇🏽

[Ashley Greb Photography @ashleygrebphoto]

Wonderfully entertaining and informative @BylineTimes' keynote speaker, @TheRickWilson of @ProjectLincoln.

Byline Festival at WOMAD Festival - 25.Jul.26

#rickwilson #thelincolnproject #bylinetimes #speaker #womad

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[Dr Peter Dilworth 💙 #Woke #GTTO 😷 Blue Tick👀 @PeterDilworth1]

Should be interesting @andyburnham @BylineTimes https://t.co/6rTA9guHz6

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

Abusive Jason Arday posts published every 10 minutes on X after resignation, study finds
https://t.co/Sz728f1q1w