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Harry's Last Stand Run Rabbit Run JM Smith "When the First World War broke out in 1914, a British diplomat lamented that the lights were going out across Europe. Yet most were excited by the prospect of conflict, as if battle were a bath to cleanse civilisation of the grime of peace. The start of the Second World War wasn’t like that." https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/run-rabbit-run?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics

Harry's Last Stand Staying On JM Smith "Late last week, I became aware of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic in the United States over its harvesting of millions of books, more than a decade ago, without the permission of their authors or publishers. Curious, I searched the database of works listed in the lawsuit. To my astonishment, I found my dad’s first book, 1923, among the titles that had allegedly been scraped." https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/staying-on?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #HarrysLastStand #JohnSmith

Harry's Last Stand Neoliberalism Bins Everything of Value JM Smith "During the Brexit referendum, I once saw the Liberal Democrat life peer and political commentator Paddy Ashdown on an overcrowded weekend train to Cornwall during a June heatwave. It was standing room only with weekend holidaymakers and foreign tourists. My dad was in a mobility wheelchair, pushed up against luggage stacked against a wall." https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/neoliberalism-bins-everything-of?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics