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Category Archive: Phil Hall

Give me that Old Time Religion, it’s good enough for me – and you.

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Socialists need to reconnect with religion By Philip Hall I’ve recently decided to become a Quaker. I went […]

Ars Notoria 25 January 2021 Phil Hall, Politics, Religion

Turtle in Stöhrstraße

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By Philip Hall + It was the Albanian maid, Meera who discovered it. ‘There is an animal in […]

Ars Notoria 5 January 2021 Phil Hall, Short story

Capitalist Dreams

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In the spirit of Mayakovsky The World is Sick of Dreaming Sometimes I wish my bed were as […]

Ars Notoria 27 November 2020 Capitalism, Phil Hall, Poetry

Suspending Jeremy Corbyn is a Declaration of Civil War

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Keir Starmer has now alienated the best and the most idealistic people in the Labour Party By Phil […]

Ars Notoria 30 October 2020 Antisemitism, Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, New Labour, Opinion, Phil Hall, UK

A Shared Vision of the North Downs Way

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At Kit’s Coty the Ancestors Spoke. They said: ‘We all belong’. By Phil Hall Well, 2007 was a […]

Ars Notoria 10 October 2020 North Downs Way, Phil Hall, Rambling

Would you like a Bushbaby?

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By Phil Hall Someone from the countryside was selling a young bush-baby in a corner of Dar-es-Salaam market. Mom was […]

Ars Notoria 9 October 2020 Memoir, Phil Hall

Jeremy Corbyn and The Psychological Agony of the Left

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We feel desolate at the squandering of such an enormous opportunity By Phil Hall After the failure of […]

Ars Notoria 2 October 2020 Phil Hall, Socialism

Wake up in Uruapan

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By Felipe Elvira Imagine waking up in Uruapan. Many thousands of Uruapenses who have crossed the border over […]

Ars Notoria 30 September 2020 Felipe Elvira, Phil Hall, Photography

So, you want to learn a new language?

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By Philip Hall For more than 30 years I have been teaching people how to speak, write, read […]

Ars Notoria 29 August 2020 Languages, Phil Hall

Mandala

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My march through the relative silence of nine years Has brought me to a small house With a […]

Ars Notoria 15 July 2020 Culture, Phil Hall

Norris McWhirter’s White Rabbit

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By Phil Hall The first guided client to be ushered up the slopes of Chomolungma-Sagarmatha by Sherpa Tenzing […]

Ars Notoria 14 July 2020 Great Britain, Kenya, Phil Hall, Politics, Racism, Sport

Stand up to Apartheid Israel, you Lily-livered Soft Leftists*

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The moment has come for the soft left to develop a backbone and make a stand against reactionary […]

Ars Notoria 2 July 2020 Middle East, Naeem Ali Jundiyeh, Palestine, Phil Hall, Politics, World

Born to Respect the Wild

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We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film […]

Ars Notoria 1 July 2020 Ecology, Kenya, Phil Hall, Wild

Catastrophes are not for drama queens

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Global warming is real, but it is not an excuse for misanthropes to voice their hatred of humanity. […]

Ars Notoria 30 June 2020 Ecology, Global warming, Phil Hall

The Danger of Working Class Fascism

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Everyday working class, fascism is real by Phil Hall One of the dirty secrets of history is that […]

Ars Notoria 23 June 2020 Capitalism, Phil Hall, Politics, The Working Class

How to be a Gourmet

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– like Richard Steinhardt By Phil Hall Grandpa was an admirer of Napoleon and this was partly why […]

Ars Notoria 4 June 2020 Food, France, Lisa Steinhardt, Phil Hall, Recipes, Richard Steinhardt

Allow Me to Spit!

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In the USA racism is the collateral damage caused by social inequality and injustice, and a history of […]

Ars Notoria 3 June 2020 Phil Hall, Politics, Racism, USA

Ideas about Cuba and Che

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Che appeals to revolutionary fantasists who like the poetry of violence. By Phil Hall When we watched a […]

Ars Notoria 28 May 2020 Communism, Cuba, History, Personal experience, Phil Hall

The Poetry of Markets

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One of the greatest pleasures in my grandfather’s life was to visit the market in Cannes, to admire […]

Ars Notoria 28 May 2020 Markets, Phil Hall, Poetry

Tread Softly Starmer, You Tread on Our Dreams

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LISTEN TO THE LEFT STARMER, OR GO! Masks off! Keir Starmer got elected as Labour leader under false […]

Ars Notoria 24 May 2020 Phil Hall, Socialism, The Labour Party

A Personal Vision of Richmond Park and Beyond

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by Philip Hall Richmond Park is not far away from us. It’s easy to reach it and to […]

Ars Notoria 22 May 2020 Personal experience, Phil Hall, Photography, Walking

Social Darwinism: the deadly poison at the heart of reason

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by Philip Hall The cast system is inhuman. FGM seems impossibly cruel. Look at the Taliban: Malala got […]

Ars Notoria 19 May 2020 Capitalism, History, Phil Hall, Racism

Don’t Tear Up your Labour Membership Card

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WHAT IS TO BE DONE? By Phil Hall The British Disease is passive aggression. It is class hatred […]

Ars Notoria 12 May 2020 Capitalism, Communism, Economics, History, Phil Hall, Socialism

Humanity’s Rosy Fingered Dawn: 2020

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By Phil Hall Covid-19 arrives, We sit at home for a long while. The cities empty, the air […]

Ars Notoria 8 May 2020 Capitalism, Covid-19, Ecology, Economics, History, Phil Hall, Philosophy, Photography, Psychology, Socialism, The Labour Party

How to defeat Covid-19

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By Phil Hall In China the barefoot doctors believed in prevention rather than cure. So how can we […]

Ars Notoria 6 May 2020 Brexit, Capitalism, Communism, Covid-19, Economics, History, NHS, Personal experience, Phil Hall, Philosophy, Psychology, Socialism, The Labour Party
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