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The excellent Top Boy returned for a final season on Netflix yesterday.

So what has that to do with Jeremy Corbyn, an international network of socialist militants, and anarcho-punk music?

To answer that, we need to look at the bio of Top Boy creator/writer Ronan Bennett In ‘74, when just 19 yrs old, Ronan Bennett was convicted by a no-jury Diplock court of murdering Inspector William Elliott, a 49-year-old police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, during an Official IRA robbery at the Ulster Bank in Rathcoole.

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Stonehenge ‘85.

Battle of the Bean Field.

A year after crushing the miners, Thatcher turned her eye to the burgeoning counter-culture, mobilising 1300 police officers in an attempt to halt the counter-cultures most significant annual event- the Stonehenge Free festival. The ‘peace convey,’ as the assorted vehicles, buses and caravans belonging to New Age travellers was referred to, was intercepted in Hampshire, with festival goers escaping into an adjacent bean field.