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WorldbyStorm - 20:41 Tue Nov 13, 2018 EU and UK negotiators have agreed on a text that deals with the Irish border, RTÉ News understands.The text was agreed at around 9pm last night and then transmitted to Downing Street.While two well-placed sources have confirmed that the text was “as stable as it can be”, they say it would not be correct to […]A
WorldbyStorm - 11:53 Tue Nov 13, 2018 Which given Brexit is all too often these days, what an interesting definition of devolution Gordon Brown has. While no supporter of independence when asked yesterday: Q: What do you mean by the idea that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could bypass Whitehall and have their own relationship with the EU? Browns says there is […]A
WorldbyStorm - 09:30 Tue Nov 13, 2018 Difficult to know whether to cry or laugh at the reports on the thinking of some Tories on the pro-Brexit side who appear to be wedded to a risible view of the world. Or rather that portion of the world belonging to the Commonwealth. Shortly after the 2016 referendum, Whitehall officials started talking about renewing […]A
WorldbyStorm - 06:32 Tue Nov 13, 2018 Making History ?provides everything you need? for secondary students taking junior cycle history, says Gill. It includes a chapter on the Troubles, which covers the escalation of violence after October 5th, 1968 up to the Belfast Agreement.In a ?chronological awareness? timeline, it states Bobby Sands died in 1982, the year after his death; the McGurk?s […]A
WorldbyStorm - 10:48 Mon Nov 12, 2018 Interesting post here on Slugger about a symposium on Catholicism hosted by Slugger O?Toole (and part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science). There?s some stats offered by Dr. Gladys Ganiel, a sociologist of religion from QUB. And these struck me as particularly interesting. I?ve mentioned the issue of Mass attendance before – for one […]A
WorldbyStorm - 09:44 Mon Nov 12, 2018 Al Murray on the Bugle podcast a week or so back expressed incredulity at the false allegations against Robert Mueller, a story issued by a bunch he described, correctly, as utterly inept – for those unacquainted with it, here are the main details. As Murray noted: What?s amazing about this is the ineptitude of the […]A
WorldbyStorm - 02:38 Mon Nov 12, 2018 To download the above please click on the following link. socialist-republic-76.pdf Please click here to go the Left Archive. Many thanks to the person who forwarded this to the Archive. This edition of Socialist Republic joins others in the Archive. It has a range of interesting pieces – not least one on’Armed Struggle: The Way […]A
Tomboktu - 01:06 Mon Nov 12, 2018 I missed this two weeks ago. Brian Nolan has crunched the most recent data on incomes in Ireland, for 2015, using updated technical details which don’t change the findings much. His (five-page) paper is here: https://wid.world/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WID_MET... The graph below shows the proportion of the total income that the top one percent received. (Despite the apparent […]A
WorldbyStorm - 18:04 Sun Nov 11, 2018 From East Wall History Group’s facebook page, a news report from November 1968. As EWHG notes: This is an astonishing newspaper report from November of 1968 , in which the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland invokes the memory of the World War One dead to insult the newly emerged Civil Rights Movement. Don’t forget… Join […]A
WorldbyStorm - 12:48 Sun Nov 11, 2018 Funny talking about potential ancient civilisations last weekend – civilisations that sadly didn?t exist. For given actual civilisations in history there?s an odd tendency to downplay their technological abilities – hence during the 1960s and 1970s the almost obsessive effort by Von Daniken et al to ?prove? that far-flung civilisations on this planet were assisted […]A |
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