The Middle Aged Revolutionary

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

V.I. Lenin, 1899

Tag: travel

  • Care Work and Immigration: What It Means for Workers

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    Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s announcement on the BBC on Sunday 11th May that the practice of recruiting workers in the care industry from abroad would end would surely have been met with the wryest of smiles amongst the great and the good within the Reform Party. They would have known that they have made…

  • In Praise of Wetherspoon’s

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    One of the first articles that I wanted to write when I first started this blog was in praise of Wetherspoon’s and, in the spirit of self-criticism, I should not have taken so long to actually write it and pledge to do better in future. For the avoidance of doubt, I should preface my words…

  • Public Transport Woes: Lessons from My Recent Travels

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    I have worked in transport for over thirty five years. For most of that time I have been a strong advocate for all modes of public transportation. Despite the often shocking price, the occasional catastrophic failures and the intermittent lack of choice of who gets to sit next you, I would often urge people looking…

  • The Beeching Report: A Legacy of Britain’s Railways

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    On 27th March 1963, British Railways published a report entitled “The Reshaping of Britain’s Railways”. The report, followed two years later by “The Development of the Major Trunk Routes”, detailed in full the lines and stations which, in the view of Dr Richard Beeching, the man who wrote both reports, should be closed permanently in…