K M Flett

A nightcap. Now a permanent addition to the Johnnie Walker range. Aged in red wine & sherry barrels. Churchill was a fan of JW red & black. This seems more focused to cocktails(one was served at Trump's recent State Banquet). I'm drinking it neat with ice..

Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025 Beard Liberation Front contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social 9th October Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal …

The first Close Shave vote for Beard of Autumn 2025 is now open. Contenders: 1 Robbie Savage 2 Lenny Henry 3 Zack Polanski 4 Chris Woakes. Top two go to a final Beard Off vote. Respond below or DM to vote 👇
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Two Adnams brewed beers today. One cask(Wetherspoons £1.99) the other in can(Sainsburys £2.70). Price is an issue, the beer was excellent

E P Thompson, Luddism & AI E P Thompson in the Making of the English Working Class was rightly critical of those who dismissed opposition to new technology in the 1820s and 1830s. Their livelihoods were threatened by employe…

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An important statement in times like these & the beer is ok. The small print reveals the beer is brewed in Sweden & canned in the UK. Global Big Beer at work(Carlsberg). The LGBTQ support will look good in the annual report of course

The MP for Clacton has been attacking the British education system (in a speech in Michigan) The speech took place on 18th September 2025. The Guardian has the story. Who paid for Farage to be there is as often not known, neither is his connection to the College. It does however fit a patt…

Fresh from running down the UK in Michigan, Farage has been in Caerphilly today. Missed his Friday Surgery in Clacton yet again...
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Jenrick, Trump…. Visit the post for more.

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One of the men in this photo was recently convicted of taking Russian bribes while serving as a UKIP MEP & then briefly as Welsh leader of Reform. Farage in Caerphilly today has claimed that Gill was a 'bad apple' & he had no idea....

ID cards and the history of working-class anonymity KEIR STARMER’S plan to introduce digital ID cards has a recent history. It was a project of the Blair years. Tony Blair, who has never had a personal social media presence, was keen on ID cards becaus...

Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the pronounced hostility the labour movement has had to giving the state the power to pry and identify dissidents, going back to the era of the ‘Freeborn Englishman’ and Captain Swing
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The criteria used for Beard Award shortlists. The Reverse Hegseth Test Beard Liberation Front 10th December The shortlist for the Beard of Autumn 2025 has been announced and on-line voting will open on Saturday 11th October. The BLF is often asked what criteria are us…

The Beard of Autumn Shortlist & the Hegseth Test
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The MP for Clacton has been attacking the British education system (in a speech in Michigan) The speech took place on 18th September 2025. The Guardian has the story. Who paid for Farage to be there is as often not known, neither is his connection to the College. It does however fit a patt…

Fresh from running down the UK in Michigan, Farage has been in Caerphilly today. Missed his Friday Surgery in Clacton yet again...
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Jenrick, Trump…. Visit the post for more.

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I bet Qatar's air force allows beards.

Indeed. He may have gone there for a photo-op but lunch will have been a grander affair with wine not beer

Farage has been in Caerphilly today (10th Oct). The real story is where he went for lunch. If there were any actual journalists present as opposed to Farage stenographers perhaps we'll find out

The criteria used for Beard Award shortlists. The Reverse Hegseth Test Beard Liberation Front 10th December The shortlist for the Beard of Autumn 2025 has been announced and on-line voting will open on Saturday 11th October. The BLF is often asked what criteria are us…

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The MP for Clacton has been attacking the British education system (in a speech in Michigan) The speech took place on 18th September 2025. The Guardian has the story. Who paid for Farage to be there is as often not known, neither is his connection to the College. It does however fit a patt…

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E P Thompson’s Time Work Discipline in the 24/7 age & plans to extend pub opening hours E P Thompson’s Time Work Discipline in the 24/7 age & plans to extend pub hours EP Thompson’s essay on Time-Work Discipline was published in Past and Present 38/1 December 1967. It speaks to ve…

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Socialist History Seminar. Mon 20th Oct Dilan Tulsiani, Traditions of Dissent. The British Section of the League Against Imperialism Monday 20th October 5.30pm on Zoom Dilan Tulsiani ‘Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism’. Free on Zoom. Booking essentia…

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Times letter writers give thumbs down to Jenrick on ‘activist’ judges and racism E P Thompson in his collection Writing By Candlelight saw Times letter writers at representative of provincial and often reactionary views. Thompson was determinedly provincial himself (from Halifa…

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Right-wing historians & history. Niall Ferguson on Donald Trump,dictatorship & Nazi Germany The above is an extract from a long piece in the Times by Prof Niall Ferguson about whether Donald Trump is a dictator or not. Ferguson thinks he isn’t and I agree but we come at it from diff…

Comparisons between Trump's US & Nazi Germany in the later 1930s are overblow. However comparisons to the pre-Nazi takeover 1930-32 may be closer to the mark
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PFL is a Faragism. Proper F*cking Lunch

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Starmer meets Modi for a PFL. The full menu Starmer has been in India meeting Modi to discuss trade deals. The outcome seems to have been mainly more discussions. Change can be frustratingly slow even in a 24 hour news cycle The real event w…

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Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025 Beard Liberation Front contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social 9th October Gary Neville faces Zack Polanski for Beard of Autumn 2025 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal …

good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social taking on Reform's Zia Yusuf on Question Time. Polanski is on the Beard of Autumn shortlist. Voting opens on Saturday. Can he shave Gary Neville?👇
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Right-wing historians & history. Niall Ferguson on Donald Trump,dictatorship & Nazi Germany The above is an extract from a long piece in the Times by Prof Niall Ferguson about whether Donald Trump is a dictator or not. Ferguson thinks he isn’t and I agree but we come at it from diff…

Comparisons between Trump's US & Nazi Germany in the later 1930s are overblow. However comparisons to the pre-Nazi takeover 1930-32 may be closer to the mark
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Right-wing historians & history. Niall Ferguson on Donald Trump,dictatorship & Nazi Germany The above is an extract from a long piece in the Times by Prof Niall Ferguson about whether Donald Trump is a dictator or not. Ferguson thinks he isn’t and I agree but we come at it from diff…

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Times letter writers give thumbs down to Jenrick on ‘activist’ judges and racism E P Thompson in his collection Writing By Candlelight saw Times letter writers at representative of provincial and often reactionary views. Thompson was determinedly provincial himself (from Halifa…

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Badenoch conference speech: other parties offer beer, jam, lentils. The Tories offer gruel? Kemi Badenoch’s speech to the Tory Conference on 8th October made headlines because of a pledge to abolish Stamp Duty in the unlikely event the Tories ever return to Office. Anyone who has pa…

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