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GRT Welcomes New Trustees
These are “interesting times” for us all, and it’s an interesting time for the Grant Rule Trust as well. The three founding Trustees, Sue, Lyndsey and Helen Rule felt that there was never a more important time than now to … Continue reading
Cracklin Good Christmas Track Listings
Christmas Is Coming! Christmas Fayre The Boar’s Head Carol A Song For A Time Gaudete We Three Kings Shepherds Arise Patapan The Holly And The Ivy While Shepherds Watched Sing In The New Bring The New Year In The Cutty … Continue reading
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Pigs Year Track Listing
Lady Gray Davey Lowston Tom Paine The Magpie Doldrums/Waitin’ for the Day Ruins by the Shore How the Mighty Fall Morris & Molly’s Big Day Out Marco Polo Shipwreck Farewell to the Gold Old Harry’s Books Folksong Jack of Kent … Continue reading
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Choice Company Track Listing
Follow me up to Carlow White Owl Ashburton Summer Show Fhir a Bata The Unquiet Grave The Fall and Rise of Cousin John Flash Company Sally Free and Easy The Reluctant Mariner Dainty Davie Twa Corbies The Juice of the … Continue reading
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Salted Track Listing
The World Turned Upside Down Arthur McBride Ripe and Bearded Barley Subject’s Joy Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy Boys of Bedlam Why Soldiers Why/ Johnny I Hardly Knew You Poor Ditching Boy Kelly the Boy from Killane The Rape of Glencoe/ … Continue reading
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The Whole Hog Track Listing
The Miner Sussex Downs Turpin Hero The 51st Highland Division’s Farewell to Sicily The 23rd February Leaving on the Tide Hills of Connemara/The Long Room at Scarborough Welcome Cold November The Weaver’s Dance Sausages A Drink for Each Song Slip … Continue reading
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Silk Purse Track Listings
A Silk Purse from Pig’s Ear North Sea Holes In Safe Harbour The Winner’s Song The Miner’s Lifeguard A Florin a Day All in a Row Benjamin Bowmaneer Jolly Broom-man Rules of the House Sir Thomas Tildersley Sylvie! Sylvie! The … Continue reading
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The Rise and Fall of Liberal Capitalism
Contrary to what those of us on the Left are prone to thinking, liberal capitalism is not a many-headed monster spreading a black stain of poverty and death across the planet. No, really. It isn’t. So much has been achieved … Continue reading
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Winning the war, losing the peace?
I was born in 1955, into a world where we believed fascism had just been defeated. Britain and its allies had just fought a war against Nazi Germany; Hitler was dead. Fascism was dead. But it wasn’t. It just went … Continue reading
Survival Is Not Compulsory – Why I Joined the Green Party
Sue Rule shares her personal political stance and explains how she arrived at it. I find it sobering, not to say somewhat depressing, to find the Green Party still portrayed as the ones with the wacky, impractical ideas. In fact, it … Continue reading
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