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Britain's Small Business Extinction: How the Doughnut Economy Became Government Policy.
You've noticed something's changed, haven't you? Your high street looks different now. Quieter. Emptier. Less... yours. Small Business Extinction: The…
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The Jigsaw Method: How a School Leaver Learned to Write.
Someone told me the other day that I have a “talent for writing”. Who knew?
15 hrs ago
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Washing Your Feet in the Toilet?
How a Teacher Got Banned for Stating Facts While the School That Created the Problem Walked Away Clean.
Dec 9
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65,791 Hate Crimes. Under 3% Convicted. Nobody Can Define "Hate".
Bristol's decade of data proves what theory predicted: you can't prosecute what you can't define.
Dec 9
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The "Hate Crime" Problem: When Nobody Can Define What They're Protecting.
Ask ten people what "hate crime" means and you'll get ten different answers. And now they're proposing judges read your mind instead of juries!
Dec 8
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Bristol Needs a Politician With the Ruthless Competence to Actually Run the City.
The personality it takes to fix a city - and why Bristol won't elect them.
Dec 8
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THE OBSERVER'S GUIDE TO WATCHING EVERYTHING BURN (WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND).
Why Your Sanity Can't Depend on Systems You Don't Control.
Dec 7
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The UK Mental Health Crisis That Isn't: How We Medicalised Poverty and Called It Progress.
They're selling you therapy when what you actually need is a house.
Dec 7
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When "Marxist" Just Means "I Don't Like Them": Why The Daily Sceptic Got Take Back Power Wrong.
How lazy categorisation destroys political analysis and why words need to mean something. 6-minute read | The Almighty Gob | 6 December 2025
Dec 6
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The Power of Silence: Why Noise Is the Gatecrasher You Keep Letting In.
Most of us woke up this morning and reached for our phones. I did. You probably did too.
Dec 6
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The Women's Institute, Trans Activism, and Why Nobody's Asking the Obvious Questions About Children.
The Women's Institute decision to maintain biological sex-based membership triggered the predictable outrage. TransLucent's CEO went on LBC demanding…
Dec 5
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Jeremy Corbyn's Hunger Strike Martyrs: When Consequences Become Oppression.
How Corbyn champions Palestine Action activists after one allegedly fractured a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer - while the victim gets no…
Dec 5
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