I took this photo on Ely High Street earlier this week. The former Capital and Counties Bank logo is still emblazoned on their one-time property,
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I received this comment in Substack yesterday, on a post on austerity, from someone called Karen May: I’ve read some of your comments, you all
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THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION The Charity Shop Crisis: Reimagining the British High Street Funding the Future | August 2026 Topic Why
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Britain’s charity shops are under pressure. Oxfam is reportedly considering closing up to 100 High Street stores, after other major charities have closed theirs. But
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Posted on Instagram this afternoon:

Mahatma Gandhi is credited with first saying: First they ignore you: People pay no attention to your ideas. Then they ridicule you: Critics laugh at
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This comment was posted on the blog this morning by an occasional commenter called Dennis Buckley: If we ever did get a government committed to
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John Healey holds the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer at this moment, to everyone’s surprise, including, I suspect, his own. He was interviewed by
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