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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Book Review: The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

Book Review: The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

For most of the 20th century, Russia dominated world history. Then, at the end of the century, history supposedly ended and the Russian spectre apparently faded away. But now Russia is back in the news in the worst possible way. Just as suddenly, everyone has an opinion on Russia – usually

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Joy in a Gulag

Joy in a Gulag

Chiara Bertoglio mercatornet.com Dr Chiara Bertoglio is a musician and theologian moonlighting as a journalist. She writes from Turin in Italy. The Diary of Happiness by Nicolae Steinhardt, Lulu, 2021, 170pp I recently read the newly republished French translation of Nicolae Steinhardt’s The Diary of Happiness — which, as

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Eugenics: Perverse Discrimination and Control

Eugenics: Perverse Discrimination and Control

Warning Long read: 1,284 words Tim O’Sullivan mercatornet.com Tim O’Sullivan taught healthcare policy at third level in Ireland and completed a PhD on the principle of subsidiarity. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford, W and N, London, 2022, 278 pp.

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Free Speech Under Attack: Book Review

Free Speech Under Attack: Book Review

A few months ago a member of the local sump won this book through a BFD draw. It was passed on to me to read and review. I would not normally purchase such a book nor get it from the local library, though it is available to borrow. It was

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We Have Three Copies of  A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We Have Three Copies of A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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We Have Three Copies of  A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We Have Three Copies of A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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We Have Three Copies of  A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We Have Three Copies of A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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TV Review: Halo

TV Review: Halo

The first episode of the long awaited/dreaded Halo TV series. The first episode is equal parts surprise and disappointment for fans: surprising, because the action and visual aesthetic are excellent. Disappointing because everything else looks exactly like what the fans were dreading: woke Hollywood screwing over yet another beloved

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Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet at 25

Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet at 25

Daryl Sparkes University of Southern Queensland I’m a film-maker who became an archaeologist who became a film-maker who became an academic. I’ve had films screened at the Maleny film festival all the way to Cannes and everything in between. As well as a Senior Lecturer in Film Production

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