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Owen Jones
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August 08, 1984
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In The Last of Us’s zombie hellscape, same-sex love is no big deal – now for the real world | Owen Jones
Of all the places to find a heartening queer love story: the apocalypse. This TV series is a major cultural milestone
Love finds many expressions, but its sole certainty is that it always ends. This inescapable reality underpins much of human culture: what is most art, music, theatre, cinema and television other than an attempt to grapple with the emotional turmoil that results?
A devastating new co
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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
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2011
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21 editions
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The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
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2014
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14 editions
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This Land: The Story of a Movement
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2020
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4 editions
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Getting By
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2015
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2 editions
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The Benn Heresy
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1982
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“A victory is scored when your opponents are forced to debate issues they would rather leave ignored”
― The Establishment: And how they get away with it
― The Establishment: And how they get away with it
“One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together.”
― The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
― The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
“Get rid of all the cleaners, rubbish collectors, bus drivers, supermarket checkout staff and secretaries, for example, and society will very quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find that all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private equity directors had disappeared, society would go on much as it did before: in a lot of cases, probably quite a bit better. So,”
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
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