Harry leslie smith biography

Harry Leslie Smith (25 February 1923 – 28 November 2018) was an English writer and political commentator.
Harry Leslie Smith was an English writer and political commentator.
Harry Leslie Smith is a survivor of the Great Depression, a second world war RAF veteran and, at 93, an activist for the poor and for the preservation of.

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Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms

September 22, 2017

I loved this book, despite the fact that much of what he wrote, particularly about his childhood, I had already read in "Harry's Last Stand". There is so much in this book that resonates for me and there are so many passages that I would love to share in this review, but that would make this almost as long as the book itself. There are many lessons to be learnt from what Harry tells us, especially if we want to change this world and make it a better place for future generations.

The following pieces are extracts from this book which particularly resonated with me:

"UKIP is a fraud. It can no more offer political salvation to the disenfranchised masses than a television evangelist can fast track you to heaven with a £100 donation to his dodgy ministry. And it is time the media and other political parties stopped paying lip service to their twenty-first-century variant of Mosley's fascism. As for the Tories, their concept of aspirational politics is a cruel deceit. Toryism is no more than an elaborate pyrami

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Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

February 26, 2017

I must admit that when I first saw this book and it's title, I assumed this would be the usual rant us younger folk expect from the elderly - you know about how easy we have it and how lazy we are and yada yada yada. So I did not bother to look any further until I saw this interview with him that justkissmyfrog posted on her youtube channel.

He was nothing like I imagined him to be. He was funny, compassionate and still so in touch. Yeah, we do not really expect that from the elderly. And as with all generalizations it is obviously not true across the board. I am a little ashamed of my initial judgement. Especially with my background I should be more aware of prejudices. But, alas, I realized my mistake and turned to his book for more of what he had to say.

And boy did he have a lot to say and in such a charming manner. He really lived a remarkable live that would have been a shame to be lost to oblivion. But he has got a nobler reason for telling his stor

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Harry Leslie Smith

British writer, political commentator, and World War II veteran (1923–2018)

Harry Leslie Smith (25 February 1923 – 28 November 2018)^[6]^[7] was an English writer and political commentator.^[1]^[2]^[3] He grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and emigrated to Canada in 1953. After retiring, Smith wrote his memoirs and about the social history of 20th-century Britain. Smith wrote five books, about life in the Great Depression, the Second World War, and post-war austerity,^[8] and columns for The Guardian, New Statesman, The Daily Mirror, International Business Times, and the Morning Star. He appeared in public at the 2014 Labour Party conference in Manchester, and during the 2015 general election and the 2016 EU membership referendum. In Canada he made a 2015 "Stand Up for Progress" national tour.

Early life

Smith was born on 25 February 1923, in Barnsley, Yorkshire,^[9] the son of Albert Smith (1867–1943), an unemployed coal