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Tides of History
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Commentary on Labour History, British Politics and Working Class Culture
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    Aug 15, 2023
    🚨Publication Day 🚨 Britain in the 1980s. Industrial Decline. Thatcherism. Unemployment. Miners. Racism. Sexism. Privatisation. Yuppies. Celebrity. Hope and Glory. And the untold story of rugby league’s survival and revival against the odds…. OUT NOW 🤙
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    Feb 7, 2021
    #OTD 2000. Labour's first attempt to scrap Section 28 is defeated in the House of Lords. Blair claims the law is a "piece of prejudice" The journalist Boris Johnson says children shouldn't be "taught some rubbish about homosexual marriage being the same as normal marriage."
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    May 11, 2022
    In the 1980s, Tory MP Matthew Parris tried to live for a week on a single man’s unemployment benefit of £26.80 in a Scotswood bedsit and failed spectacularly Lee Anderson should be humble enough to do the same today...
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    Mar 29, 2023
    Paul O’Grady takes on the “Austerity Budget” live on TV in 2010… “We should let them know that we are not taking these draconian cuts lightly”.
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    Sep 1, 2022
    🥊 Blair v Cameron on Nuclear Power 🥊
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    Jan 23, 2021
    #OTD 2012. Cameron says the British people must "have their say" on Europe as he pledges an in/out referendum if he is re-elected Miliband opposes a referendum and says it is "going to put Britain through years of uncertainty, and take a huge gamble with our economy."
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    Oct 14, 2022
    Robbie Coltrane and Robert Carlyle in Cracker - one of the first shows to deal with the impact of Hillsborough - is probably the best drama you'll see x.com/garytaphouse/s…
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    Jul 10, 2024
    Do it for Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇱 #EURO2024
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    May 12, 2019
    Tony Blair's takedown of @Nigel_Farage from 2005 "You sit with our country's flag. You do not represent our country's interest.'
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    Sep 9, 2017
    When people try and tell you New Labour achieved nothing in power....
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    Nov 21, 2024
    John Prescott v John Bercow on the Minimum Wage (1998) 🥊🥊🥊
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    Feb 18, 2019
    As Derek Hatton returns to the Labour Party, here is Neil Kinnock taking on the Militant Tendency in Bournemouth, 1985 "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises..."
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    Oct 4, 2022
    #OTD 1994. Tony Blair gives first speech to conference as leader He describes the Tories as "the most feckless, irresponsible group of incompetents ever let loose in government"
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    Jun 15, 2023
    RIP Glenda Jackson Here she spoke about the impact of Thatcherism in the 1980s
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