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Letterhole Diary – October 2018
Letterhole Diary. October. This month we consider Jair Bolsonaro’s election, starting a new job, and Fiddler on the Roof, our film of the month.
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Does Brexit really need to happen?
With talk of a so-called People’s Vote aimed at stopping Brexit growing, it’s time for Remainers to ask whether a second referendum might pose some dangers of its own.
Letterhole Diary – September 2018
Letterhole Diary. September. This month, we talk about Leeds United, dril, and whether there’s any point to the Lib Dems. We also launch a new segment: Film of the Month.
The rise and rise of the German Greens
Slowly and quietly, the German Greens are filling the void once occupied on the centre-left by the collapsing social democrats. German politics may never be the same again.
Fragmentation, not the far-right, is the story of Sweden’s election
Another European election, another round of bad takes about the far-right from the British media. Sweden’s election saw the rise of the Sweden Democrats, but that’s far from the whole story.
Letterhole Diary – August 2018
Welcome to the August edition of the ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
England and the Jews: From invitation to expulsion
In the eleventh century, English Jews and gentiles lived together peacefully. By the end of the thirteenth, the entire Jewish population had been expelled. What went wrong for England’s Jews?
Little Letterhole: Remembering the Prague Spring
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
To beat pollution, get the cars out of London
London is hideously polluted. To end this growing crisis, and improve the city’s quality of life, we need to get the cars out, and the cyclists and pedestrians in.
The legitimisation of Tommy Robinson
Tommy Robinson is an unremarkable racist, a bloke-in-the-pub with an outsized platform – we can blame the BBC for mythologising him into a working-class hero.
