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Sidney Mintz

Cost of Living: Digging for Victory

September 24, 2022September 23, 2022 Frank Armstrong

Standing outside a Dublin hostelry in the drizzle, I fell into conversation with an Ulsterman who arrived with impeccable republican-socialist credentials. I assumed, this would make him sympathetic to the recently vanquished Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. I breezily opined that the long-serving MP for Islington had been the first post-War Labour leader to challenge a … Read more

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