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Shifting priorities, then and now

“Social reforms which involve expenditure are at a standstill; we are making drastic cuts in the supplies for education and for housing; our hospitals are seriously embarrassed; our industries are crippled; our unemployed number more than 1,500,000, and yet in the last financial year we spent more than 23 million upon armaments. No wonder the

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For King and country: time for another debate?

'Rabbit brained louts' is what the Daily Express called 'Young Oxford'; the Oxford Union debating society students who in February 1933 voted by a large majority of 122 that 'this house will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country'. © Imperial War Museum, recruitment poster 1914, by artist

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