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What We Are Fighting For - 8 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 22-23Use the photo album below to read the bios:Bonus Packetracket Collector's Cards:
View ArticleLessons Learnt in Las Vegas
So, I'm in Vegas. I'm not the gambling type, nor is Mrs Tyranny. We played some slots, came out ahead, but really... gambling doesn't do it for us. That, and we have no idea how most of the games...
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What We Are Fighting For - 9 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 24-25SOMETHING OUR FATHERS FOUGHT FOR ALL THROUGH THE CENTURIES: SOMETHING WE MUST FIGHT FOR TO-DAYThe land of Britain has been...
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What We Are Fighting For - 10 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 24-25What Dr. Ley describes as socialism, the wary German worker realises is nothing less than an unscrupulous employers' paradise...
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Utah: No Smoking Allowed, Nor Dogs, Nor Double Measures
The greatest confidence trick Public Health has ever pulled must be redefining the concepts of "public" versus "private." Business owners do not own their property -- the [Nanny] State owns them....
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What We Are Fighting For - 11 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 28-29[...] And the fact remains that the entire working population, working harder than ever, is seeing its living standards become...
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What Are We Fighting For - 12 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 24-25In the cities, the impoverished workers were voting Communist. In the country they voted for Nazi. They felt it was all they...
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What We Are Fighting For - 13 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 24-25After the last war, the Baltic States, and even the backward Balkans, broke up their large, old feudal estates and came into...
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What We Are Fighting For - 14 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 34-35For the original images, see the below photo album;Jay's thoughts: Not a lot to say, except for this: Next time you are...
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What We Are Fighting For - 15 of 17
Click image to enlargifyTo view the original images, see the below photo album.Jay's thoughts: Spend a bit of time with these images. How far removed are these from today's society, when rags like the...
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What We Are Fighting For - 16 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 38-39The German mother who still wants to live her own life and look after her own home, has a Block Warden to supervise what...
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What We Are Fighting For - 17 of 17
Click image to enlargifyFrom Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pg.40If you would like to read the Diary of the War -- No. 44, then you may find it easier to download this image.Jay's Final...
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Home ... For Now
I'm home. The US road trip that Mrs Tyranny and I did these past few weeks was absolutely fantastic. We drove a total of 3,480 miles, according to the odometer in our rental car. If you'd like to see...
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Eulogy
I have been asked quite a few times about the black cat avatar I use for this Nannying Tyrants blog, on Facebook and on Twitter. His full name was Bramulus Stumpy Bear. I called him Bram; my wife...
View ArticleGood Luck With That Not Dying Thing, Jonny
Perhaps I'm extraordinarily sensitive (i.e. fucking livid) because my fuckhole neighbours hit my cat with their car the other night, and when confronted they denied doing so despite that they were the...
View ArticleAllies and Enemies
Yesterday's post about unhelpful vapers may have touched a nerve with a few folk -- check out the full comment thread if you'd like. To be perfectly clear, I do not view vapers as enemies of smokers. I...
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Class Warfare and Saving Lives
Over the next few days, weeks, and months (hell, possibly years) you're going to see a lot of people say stupid shit just like this:Rebecca Taylor MEP:"Congratulations to all those #ENVI MEPs who voted...
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Oh! The Inhumanity in Bolton!
With apologies, I'm a week or so late on covering this -- I am still playing catch-up with all that's happened since I went on holiday.About a month and some change ago, the Royal Bolton Hospital...
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UK Government Postpones Plain Packaging
Public Health activists, the tobacco control industry and smoker-hating charities like Cancer Research UK are weeping into their pints of non-alcoholic beer today. The British press is reporting that...
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Believe Whatever You Want
Over at the E-Cigarettes Politics blog, tobacco harm reduction advocate Chris Price postulates on what it means to save a life. His piece, which is tagged with "bitter and defeated smokers," references...
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A Stick With Which To Beat Us All
The latest buzzword in Public Health and government circles these days is "Health Inequalities." It's sounds authoritative and catchy, I must agree. Brandished by interfering nannying tyrants the world...
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Black Marks For Anna Soubry MP
How important was plain packaging to Public Health in the UK? Important enough for a junior civil servant to wilfully disregard Parliament? Important enough for an MP to act on behalf of the entire...
View ArticleCameron's Blue Dot Internet
I had planned to write a lengthier post about David Cameron's new pornography opt-in scheme for the UK, but over at Head Rambles, Grandad has covered pretty much what I would have said, saving me at...
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#FreeTobaccoTacticss
Unsatisfied with bullying their way into our cars yesterday, the tobacco control industry's zealots -- this would be ASH, Bath University's Tobacco Control Research Group, CRUK, TobaccoFreeFutures,...
View ArticleThe Great Escape
Regular and casual readers of this blog will have noticed that I haven't been blogging ranting for over a half-year. There are a few reasons for that (for instance, spending too much time researching...
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