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Regional rugby: time for change
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Something of the night
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Judgement time … almost
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Greece is the word
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This is league tables
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Posts Tagged ‘Wall week’
Who’s afraid of the big, bad nuke?
Mankind’s most destructive weapon cast a deep shadow over popular fiction for nearly 50 years. Then the cold war ended, and it began to vanish from our nightmares
Lost prophets
Between Moscow and Maerdy lies the curious history of the Communist Party of Great Britain. What legacy did the comrades leave?
Did it fall or was it pushed?
Socialist East Germany provided decent jobs, homes and amenities for all its people. Today, it is a land of deep inequality and concentrated wealth. Why then do we continue to show such blind faith in capitalism?
Watching the world wake up from history
WalesHome.org co-editor Duncan Higgitt so very nearly got himself a ringside seat at the end of history. Some two decades on, he remembers his part in communism’s downfall
Leighton snaps
Ok, I admit to gaining your attention under slightly false pretences there. He may be in the thick of the Welsh Labour leadership campaign, but Leighton Andrews has managed to post some very interesting pictures of new year 1989/90 in Berlin, i.e before the Wall began its second life as 1,000 book ends and museum [...]
Wales must accept that some countries are simply moving quicker
The old socialist Labour may be dead, but the party is still committed to battling inequality. But is it looking at the whole picture?
Tears for Lenin
Many in the West thought that the end of communism would signal happier times for those behind the Iron Curtain. But, for many millions, it signalled a return to how Russia was always run
The rubble from which devolution was built
Home rule’s roots lie far back in history, but the fall of communism was a crucial turning point
Wall Home.org
YOU might have noticed the change to the site’s masthead today. You almost certainly won’t have missed the extensive coverage in today’s media. Exactly 20 years ago the Berlin Wall, which for 28 years had stood, in the words of JFK, as “the most vivid demonstration of the failures of the communist system” began to [...]
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