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  • A pessimist is never disappointed June 12, 2017
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“Yeah, no I’m on Twitter … nah, it’s shit.”

  • RT @NewSocialistUK: "No Time for Game Theory" by Dominic Fox, newsocialist.org.uk/no-time-for-ga… https://t.co/QoJSFNfjW4 4 days ago
  • RT @NewSocialistUK: "The Far-Right in Britain after Finsbury Park" by @DelroyBooth newsocialist.org.uk/the-far-right-… https://t.co/RnCXfUXQgd 4 days ago
  • RT @NewSocialistUK: From the New Socialist editors, our Conference Organising Guide. newsocialist.org.uk/organising-for… https://t.co/s24jHU9fFF 4 days ago
  • RT @NewSocialistUK: "Reproductive Justice & the 2017 General Election- What Could have been" by @charlotte2153 newsocialist.org.uk/reproductive-j… http… 4 days ago
  • RT @rosagilbert: I wrote this for @NewSocialistUK on Northern Ireland, deadlock in Stormont and constitutional crisis in the UK https://t.c… 5 days ago
  • RT @Tom_Gann: This is at last part of what the absurdity of the Queen's Speech serves (from Bevan). labourlist.org/2010/05/for-ne… https://t.co/ik… 5 days ago
  • RT @NewSocialistUK: And @lemonbloodycola on the collapsing bizarre star system of technocrats sustained by "sensible" journalists. https://… 6 days ago

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