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Yesterday, it was going on for 5 pm before I finally got to take my walk.

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I watched Burnham’s leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference on Sky today, and I wish I hadn’t.

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My parents spent the last 10 years of their marriage not in a golden sunset of retirement but as caregivers to my brother Peter, who had schizophrenia.

Peter Scott Smith

When the First World War broke out in 1914, a British diplomat lamented that the lights were going out across Europe.

Eleven years ago, Harry Leslie Smith was alive and 92.

From the beginning, you’ve been a part of this journey to conclude my father’s Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future project, with The Green and Pleasant Land being published as a book.

My dad’s brother Matt died in 2014, but he was born in September 1930.

By the time most of you read this, it will be the first day of school in North America for many young people.

Two decades ago, looking out from a train from Moscow to St Petersburg, I spied a handful of women, as if from another century, washing their bedding on the shore of a rural river.

Two decades ago, looking out from a train from Moscow to St Petersburg, I spied a handful of women, as if from another century, washing their bedding on the shore of a rural river.

On this Monday morning, I am writing against a ticking clock because the first of the month arrives tomorrow, and it will come with a thud of obligations.

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Summer Is Sinking Fast

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It’s only a few more sleeps until Summer slips out before sunrise with the haste of a regretful one-night stand, and September arrives with autumnal confrontation.

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Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War.

We are now at Chapter 6 of Love Among the Ruins, the second volume of Harry Leslie Smith’s The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy.

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The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.

August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.

I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule.

Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupying soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War.

If you haven’t got the memo yet, this is dystopia, and it’s worsening by the day.

It was a few days ago, in an afternoon’s summer heat, that I walked across a grocery store parking lot.

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I have the insomnia again, so it is early morning when I write this.

Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their auth...

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