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Good day to you all,

as you may be aware, I died in 1950, having only just obtained a liftime membership of the British Space Travel club.
  I could conduct my own investigation into this via the personal computer, but I thought it might be entertaining to have you "put me in the loop", as you say. Can you bring me up to date with the world since 1950? What are the important milestones? What has happened to socialism? Did the paired vote ever succeed?

The paired Vole did indeed succeed. To save the species In 1967 The University of Dalgleish finally Gene Spliced the Common Vole (Commonus Rattus Smallus) with the French, very rare, Garlic Vole (Rarus Petitus Furrithingus). They are now a problem within Inner City areas especially around French Restaurants.

Socialism was bought by Capitalism and floated on the stock market.  Never quite as profitable as Dictatorship, it nevertheless remains a good investment amongst daydreaming idealists, as it's message of hope neatly off-sets the reality of false democracies and the persistance of a (monied) class divide.

Simon Pegg wrote a thesis combining Marxism and Star Wars......WITH LAZERS!

...but was it clever?

;)

Treens?

I didn't know Dan Dare had groupies.

Old ones, at that.

And they weren't particularly well-off.

And there was only one of them.

Dead now.

ahh but he came back our dan did.
sadly though the last time we saw him he had a shiney superpower glove and floating in space somewhere.

Dear, Dear, old groupie what a sad end, but in many was she would have liked to go that way

Huff Hare

sadly though the last time we saw him he had a shiney superpower glove and floating in space somewhere.

At the age of 8, I didn't see what was wrong with Dan Dare getting himself the Cosmic Claw. And as part of the Mekon's nefarious brainwashing scheme he was wearing the daft dressing-up box uniform of an interplanetary policeman. Yes, for all the world he looked like a Marvel Superhero, the sort that visits Earth to track down a villain from his homeworld and ends up joining the roster of The Avengers.

At the time there didn't seem anything wrong in it, although I will admit that it wasn't the first strip I turned to each week; and I don't think I always read a given week's instalment of Dan Dare before the next Prog appeared. It seemed, like Rick Random, a lot of effort.

But I still would have liked to see where Dan Dare's adventures with the Claw and his efforts to track down the Mekon to clear his own name would take him if the series hadn't been curtailed the way it was.

This Dan Dare sounds like an intrepid person. No doubt he was a vegetarian.

So has socialism prospered since 1950? Can anybody give me a brief prospectus of changes to the theatre?

Socialism has prospered only on the island of Cuba, despite the efforts of America to isolate it from the rest of the world by blockade.

A variety of welfare socialism has prevailed in Sweden, but it remains a capitalist liberal democracy.

A number of left-wing totalitarian regimes persist around the globe, based on common ownership of property but with severe restrictions on personal liberty, such as in China and North Korea, and certain Marxist states in Africa. These states espouse an ideology of equality, but most such societies are organised on hierarchical lines whereby senior officials and high-ranking party members enjoy a level of luxury and freedom that essentially constititutes them as a separate class.

Every socialist state on earth to date has been ruled by an executive that accords itself privileges of office over and above what the ordinary working man and woman is afforded.

Mornin' George.
I don't really have anything helpful to add, but i do have an essay on Pygmalion due in... Wanna do my homework for me? :D

luv Tanky

Every socialist state on earth to date has been ruled by an executive that accords itself privileges of office over and above what the ordinary working man and woman is afforded

In that regard they don't differ from every capitalist state on earth to date

Am I to assume that socialism didn't take root in Britain?

Dear Ms Grrl,

I wouldn't dream of depriving you of the pleasure of forming your own thoughts about Pygmalion, but you may ask me questions about it.

In a roundabout way of thanking Winston Churchill's Conservatives for winning the Second World War, the voters of Britain dumped them almost immediately in favour of a Labour government. Over the next ten years, the somewhat socialist idea of a National Health Service took root and, despite rigourous attempts to do away with it by successive Tory governments, it's still here. The sad thing is it may actually turn out to be a Labour government that ends up destroying it ...

Ah, ce la vie ...