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A hero of the Soviet space programme died on 11 October aged 85. Alexei Leonov was a friend and comrade of the legendary Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and his own major contribution was to be the first person to walk in space. This feat was achieved in 1965 when Leonov was 30 … [Read more…]

Part 2 (continued from previous issue) Government in 1819 The National Government Nationally, the Tories had been in power since 1783 and were to continue in power until 1830 (including very brief periods of coalition government with the Whigs), when, after the death of George IV (the Prince Regent until 1820), a period of Whig … [Read more…]

More and more evidence keeps coming in of the way education opportunity for working-class children is being whittled away. Plagued by the need to stay well up in the league tables in order to attract pupils, and therefore funding, and therefore to survive, state schools have naturally enough engaged in all kinds of underhand methods … [Read more…]

“Perfection does not exist, but things can invariably be done better. That conviction has marked the lives of men. That is why so many advances have been made in science, in technology … I can’t explain why instead of inventing how to kill, we don’t invent on how to live; how to enjoy the beauty … [Read more…]

In his pursuit of BRINO (Brexit In Name Only), prime minister Boris Johnson has used a daring tactic to outmanoeuvre his Remainer opponents. He has suspended parliament for 5 weeks, leaving them with very little time to prevent Britain leaving the EU on 31 October with or without a deal. Johnson fully expects that this … [Read more…]

On 6 August 2019, the Modi government scrapped Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and its subsidiary provision (A35A). The Jammu and Kashmir state has been abolished and its place taken by two centrally-run and controlled union territories. All this has been done by presidential order without as much as consulting the Jammu and Kashmir … [Read more…]

The economic analysis pages of the bourgeois media are predicting a huge economic downturn in the near future, with an end to the supposed ‘recovery’ from the financial crisis that erupted in 2007-8. The harbinger of doom is the ‘inverted yield curve’ that we are told has presaged every other recession there has ever been. … [Read more…]

Nissan Japanese automotive giant Nissan has announced a cull of its global workforce, cutting 12,500 jobs. The company is feeling the heat from the overproduction crisis hitting the global automotive market. Last year its sales were down by 4.4%, with that figure breaking down into a 9% drop in US sales and a 15% drop … [Read more…]

On Wednesday 7 August, after three days of talks with the US, Turkey’s defence ministry announced that a ‘Joint Action Centre’ would be set up in Turkey to implement a so-called ‘safe zone’ along the Syrian border. This agreement was wrung out of the US by Turkey only after months of wrangling, punctuated by shrill … [Read more…]

For the two months that elapsed between the inauguration of comedian-turned president Zelensky in May and the parliamentary elections in July it could be argued that his failure to match campaign promises with political practice could be ascribed to the continued dominance of Poroshenko’s placemen in the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament. Zelensky’s Servant of the People … [Read more…]