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Nick Shepley

Cardiff

Podcast Host at Explaining History

Counsellor and many things besides. 21 years in recovery. All tweets personal. https://t.co/AnkFRMiUWc

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  • 1 week ago | medium.com | Nick Shepley

    Every political party is, to some degree, a coalition. Whether it leans radical or moderate, the sources of its finances often dictate its ideological centre of gravity. Once in power, these financial backers – whether they be media barons, hedge funds, construction giants, or transnational consultancies – form an orderly queue to collect returns on their investment.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

    You will never be a billionaire. Just as you will never develop superpowers, travel to another dimension, or rise from the dead, you will never, ever own in excess of a billion pounds in cash or assets. I feel I can say that with such certainty for two reasons. First, it's an inconceivably huge sum of wealth. And second, it's not in the interests of the existing class of billionaires to widen their club very much.

  • Feb 28, 2025 | explaininghistory.org | Nick Shepley

    IntroductionA recurring claim in populist right-wing discourse asserts that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement were “socialist.” This argument leans superficially on the word “Socialist” in the Nazi Party’s name (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) and occasional anti-capitalist rhetoric used by Nazi propagandists. However, the overwhelming consensus of historical scholarship rejects this claim .

  • Apr 29, 2024 | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

    This letter isn't directed exclusively at the Labour Party leadership or the parliamentary party, but is written to each and every member throughout the country. Britain has an historic opportunity in 2024 to break the Conservative Party as a political force permanently. Polls show that Rishi Sunak will lead the Tories to an almost unprecedented political defeat when he eventually calls a general election. This would create the opportunity for tremendous transformation in Britain, if seized.

  • Apr 7, 2024 | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

    The past 14 years of austerity and increasing poverty, an unprecedented ideological onslaught that may have resulted in over a million additional deaths by 2019 alone, was possible because of two key groups in our society - our political class and our 'commentators'. While politicians have some form of democratic mandate (albeit sometimes exceedingly tenuous), commentators and columnists have none.

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Nick Shepley @NickShepley
30 May 25

RT @AbiWilks: You can't say something like this and credibly position yourself as the 'grownup in the room' who understands the current pol…

Nick Shepley
Nick Shepley @NickShepley
30 May 25

RT @musica_callada: @AdrianRamsay Except the Bloomberg analysis is nonsense written by a liar who has smeared the left repeatedly, and woul…

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Nick Shepley @NickShepley
30 May 25

Lots of scumbag accounts are attempting to cast doubt on the Liverpool driver case. Proceedings are active and there will be a trial so this is contempt of court, a criminal offence. If you see it remember to @MerseyPolice and @CPSUK in the replies, keep it civil obvs.