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  1. In the early Seventies I was on a rugby tour of Scotland which coincided with the game celebrating the centenary of the SRU. Must have been Scotland v Rest of the World or something. We were just an insignificant little club from the Monmouthshire valleys but while we were out boozing one night on Princes Street we ran into some of the Rest of the World squad. Amongst them were All Black Alastair Scown and the Australian fullback Russell Fairfax. Scown was great and mixed well with us but I particularly remember Fairfax because he was so competely unpretentious and down to earth and I remember thinking there wouldn't be many British International rugby players who would have deigned to party with us while it seemed that to Fairfax we were just some more young rugby players out on the town and he stayed out with us through the night. I have always since had an affection for Australian rugby.

  2. There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

    Remember this one?....

  3. Why and how did that happen? Did socialism lose popular support? Was it banned or were the movement's leaders imprisoned?

    I believe it was simply opportunism on the part of Labour Party politicians who, recognising that they were fighting a largely hostile popular press managed by Murdoch and with unpopular policies that went against Thatchers 'greed is good' and 'let market forces decide' ideas, lurched subtly but definitely to the Right in order to get themselves elected as an 'alternative' to her and her successors.

  4. As an outsider sitting here watching the British government be compared with Middle Eastern autocracies, I have to ask: isn't the British government elected? Are the suppressed "masses" not allowed to participate in the political process? Are the government's policies not supported by the majority of the British population? How is this kleptocracy able to perpetuate its hold on power election after election?

    Our problem as an electorate is that all British political parties are now to all intents and purposes the same party. The old socialist Labour Party died with Blair whos first act as Prime Minister was to pay a respectful visit to Margaret Thatcher, one of the most divisive and anti working class political leaders this country has ever had. Her favourite target was of course the miners of this country who as a Union had far too much power for her liking and who she once famously called 'the enemy within'. It's ironic isn't it that where people like Napoleon, the Kaiser, Hitler and the miners themselves failed to bring this country down, ultimately it could just be the Tories great friends and supporters, the Bankers who might.

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