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Vincent Wong - 1979 - Long, Short Tall BBC

UK: The Long and the Short and the Tall [1976] TV Movie! (12.11.2026)

This was part of our “English Literature” Studies (English Language was a separate subject). As I have said elsewhere many times – the UK was more left-wing than most people realise – including younger British people who now have to pay for their University education (usually the price of an average mortgage for a basic degree). Thatcher abolished free education in 1988. What is interesting is that this play was written in the late 1950s following the disastrous (anti-Socialist) “Malaya Emergency” and “Korean War” – during the height of the US-derived “Cold War”. Many in the UK, particularly WWII Veterans, were uncomfortable being made by the US to “hate” their former allies of the Soviet Union (whose Red Army stood with them when no one else would). Private Bamforth was presented (to us) as a “barrack room lawyer” or someone who caused trouble for no reason – but this is obviously not the case. He seems to embody the rebellious spirit of the working-class – and its advanced proletariat morality. Bamforth is the only one with the guts to protect the unarmed Japanese POW – and would have been the only one not charged with “War Crimes”. Surely, if we are better than Japanese fascists – why would we behave like Japanese fascists? Some say that this play is subversive and “anti-war” – perhaps it is (the enemy is just like us). During the late 1970s the UK had the last far-left Labour government.

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When the UK was Truly Great!

Gaza: Israel Initiates Desperate Measures Against UK “Economic Sanctions” – Targeting Zionist Colonies! (12.9.2026)

The UK Establishment is running scared of its own working-class population – which looks to be on the brink of voting-in a right-wing government. This is due, in-part, to decades of UK support for Israel and its ongoing genocidal policy – whilst the British masses feels this is wrong. The right-wing is not the answer – but this is where we are. The bourgeoisie will not listen. It has generated this political situation by manipulating the press and the masses in voting to keep far-left parties out of power. Right-wing New Labour does not want to put any sanctions on its chum Israel – it has only done this – because it does not want to lose the next General Election (this will be historically embarrassing considering the majority it possesses). Meanwhile, “Palestinian Action” still remains proscribed and its leading lights rotting in prison. Do not be fooled. I believe this all political theatre. Nothing substantive will happen to the Zionist Project in Gaza. What will sink New Labour are the endless French boats landing on the east coast full of guests from other parts of the world. Even Local Councils are now refusing to land these boats – saying all the hotels are currently full! It is this anti–worker policy that will sink Burnham’s New Labour.

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Slave Master on his Throne

US: What Where the Black & White Minstrels? (2.7.2026)

From the 1940s onward, a progressive trend in Minstreling permitted real black men to participate on stage – often along side white actresses. It must be born in mind that plantations existed well into the early 20th century. Slaves cannot help being uneducated because that is the state that the slave-master demands (knowing less is believed to make a person more easily controllable). On stage, the “interlocuter” would sit on a central throne and control the entire show. He is in fact the “slave-master” – and his slaves sit all around him – like obedient soldiers. Why the seats? Well, the “crackers” – the white security guards with whips (stood in the aisles) – preferred that the slaves be seated (and in one place for as long as possible) until it was their turn to perform. These crackers, although hidden, probably numbered as high as the performers just in case the slave-master (or his white assistants) were attacked at any point in the show. When blacked-up white men took the place of the slaves, the risk of attack disappeared, but the organisation used to control the slaves was retained on stage as an important feature of the entertainment itself. It is interesting to consider that popular music, in all its genres, is believed to have evolved out of the Minstreling tradition.

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The Great Charlie Chuck!

UK: The Great Charlie Chuck! (22.5.2026)

When I was young, I worked in a number of factories and wore over-alls. We were all fully Unionised workers. The Social Clubs used to collect fees from its members (small weekly or monthly amounts) which were used to fund the two-week “Works’ Holiday” in August – usually paying fully for a break in a Holiday Camp (all-inclusive). Later, during the 1970s, the Unions (via Social Clubs) would fund flights to Spain (all-inclusive). If any government dared to take away the Welfare State, the NHS, or Social Services – the Unions would threaten to paralyse society through “all-out” General Strikes! Workers would even turn-off the electric to prove their point. All this was destroyed by Thatcher and all of the UK Social Clubs are now gone – with workers wallowing in self-pity and personal greed (open to manipulation by the far-right). How sad it all is. Still, Charlie Chuck has a “Zen-Like” quality about his prose – although many of my international readers may not understand his Northern-drawl.

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The discovery may indicate that Shakespeare spent more time in London in his later years than previously thought

UK: Location of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars House Discovered! (17.4.2026)

One of the documents was a plan of part of the Blackfriars precinct, drawn up in 1668, two years after the Great Fire of London, which confirmed the precise location and size of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars house.

The part of the property that spanned the gate did not appear in the post-fire plan because it had no foundation.

Munro said: “This house was close to [Shakespeare’s] workplace at the Blackfriars theatre.

“We know that Shakespeare co-authored Two Noble Kinsmen with John Fletcher later in 1613, and this new evidence that the Blackfriars house was quite substantial makes it not inconceivable that some of it may have been written in this very property.”

The other two of these documents relate to the sale of the Blackfriars property by Shakespeare’s granddaughter in 1665.

The property covered what are now the eastern end of Ireland Yard, the bottom of Burgon Street and parts of the late 19th Century buildings at 5 Burgon Street and 5 St Andrew’s Hill.

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USSR Religion Serves the People!

BMA-UK: How the West Uses Islam Around the World to Manipulate Conditions! (17.3.2026)

Zionism then, whilst purporting to side with a thin veneer of Judaic history and theology – actually perpetuates an ideology of “White Supremacy” (as confirmed by the 1975 UN Resolution). Like non-Jewish fascists – Zionists hate non-White peoples and non-Jewish peoples equally – and, of course, the Muslims fit into this role as “victim”. The Muslims have historically occupied the Middle East for centuries – but modern diasporic Zionist-Jews (many orthodox Jews reject Zionism) believe that they possess a historical right to all Middle Eastern land – and that this supposedly Biblical prophesy can only be achieved by “Genociding” the indigenous Muslim populations of Gaza and beyond (the Zionists justify this ideal through the fiction that all Muslims are “terrorists”).’

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