Is The PQ’s Secular Charter A Vote-Winner?
Following on from my post here about the controversy surrounding suggested new regulations in Québec promoting greater secularism in theContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Ireland’s Export-Based Economy – Emigration, Emigration, Emigration
From Middle Class Political Economist: “July 31 saw the latest release of European Union unemployment numbers, and Monday’s gross domestic productContinue Reading
Revisionism Or War By Other Means
There is huge controversy in France at the moment after it was revealed in a local newspaper that a monumentContinue Reading
The Guardian Enters GUBU Territory
From the Guardian newspaper: “Guardian editors on Tuesday revealed why and how the newspaper destroyed computer hard drives containing copiesContinue Reading
Fianna Gael? Media Hype Or Media Wish Fulfilment?
For some time now certain sections of Ireland’s right-wing media have been hyping up the idea of the country’s twoContinue Reading
The North-East Of Ireland: Convergence
The Irish blogger “Endgame In Ulster” asks why is the political establishment of the British Unionist community in the north-eastContinue Reading
Facing Down The Randinistas
Here is a statement I suspect a significant number of Ireland’s citizenry would agree with. Most Irish economists are capitalistContinue Reading
The Syrian Weapons Bazaar
The military blog of the New York Times, “At War”, has maintained some excellent coverage of the complex conflict inContinue Reading
Big Think: The Repartition Of Ireland
Big Think is one of my favourite websites dedicated to, well, big thinking. It deals with all sorts of ideasContinue Reading
Undoing The Conquest, Renewing The Struggle
I’ve been asked to highlight an upcoming seminar titled “Undoing The Conquest, Renewing The Struggle” from the Peadar O’Donnell SocialistContinue Reading
Ian O’Doherty – The Answer To A Question Nobody Asked
The latest noxious brain-fart from the Daily Mail wannabe in today’s Irish Independent newspaper: “Despite RTÉ’s incessant efforts to makeContinue Reading
The United Front Of Unionism
The Reverend Mervyn Gibson, a senior member of the anti-Catholic British and Protestant society known as the Orange Order, hasContinue Reading
Scottish Voters Split On Independence Question
The Panelbase voter questionnaire commissioned by Wings Over Scotland has thrown a spanner in the works of the usual mediaContinue Reading
Republican Parades, Unionist Violence
So the big Anti-Interment parade went ahead in Belfast on Saturday commemorating the 1971 introduction by the British state ofContinue Reading
We Didn’t Start The Riot – King Billy Joel
From Loyalists Against Democracy.
Burning Flags Is Not Our Culture
The anniversary of the 1971 imposition of internment or imprisonment without trial in the British Occupied North of Ireland isContinue Reading
The Irish News Making The News
I’m as susceptible to following a good online row as any other Seán or Síle Citizen, though in the caseContinue Reading
Parti Québécois, Power For Power’s Sake?
Hard to disagree with this description of the Parti Québécois by Jean-Martin Aussant, former PQ politician and disillusioned ex-leader ofContinue Reading
British Separatist Mob Attack Lord Mayor Of Belfast
So Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, a democratically elected local government councillor and the new mayor of the city of Belfast, visitsContinue Reading
Monsters From The Id
A sobering and very personal reminder from Bock the Robber of the beast that lies at the core of thatContinue Reading
Back With A Bang, Not A Whimper
A busy few days occupied with the internal workings of PCs and TVs (not to mention some hill-walking thrown inContinue Reading
Loyalists Against Democracy – Now Blogging!
After being (temporarily) ejected from Facebook – by mistake claims FB’s infamously wayward administrators – the satirical protest group,Continue Reading
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