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"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Among Other Sobering Facts

The southernmost part of Britain is the poorest.

Like many extremely poor areas, it elects no Labour MPs.

Another such is the northernmmost part of Britain.

And County Durham is now poorer than rural Poland.
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Lanchester, Liberated County Durham, United Kingdom
"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach". davidaslindsay@hotmail.com
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