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guestposter - 09:53 Fri Dec 06, 2019 A very useful guest post from Michael Curry. (Extract from Michael Murray?s Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier, December 2019) Michael Murray: murraymicha@gmail.com; FaceBook: Michael Murray London Aditya Chakrabortty wrote recently that ?Labour?s new manifesto puts the party squarely at the cutting edge of what is now mainstream leftwing. The world is watching,? he says, […]A
WorldbyStorm - 05:50 Fri Dec 06, 2019 Gewerkschaftler suggested this recently: I suggest this blog should have a regular (weekly) slot where people can post happenings at the personal or political level that gives them hope that we?re perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket as quickly as we thought. Or as the phlegmatic Germans put it ?hope dies last?. Any […]A
guestposter - 13:35 Thu Dec 05, 2019 The December issue of Socialist Voice from CPOI is now available online here.A
WorldbyStorm - 11:34 Thu Dec 05, 2019 It?s funny, I was reading in the IT Kathy Sheridan?s critique of Maureen Dowd?s column where the famously liberal Dowd handed over, as she does every year, to her brother Kevin. Kevin?s column was, well, a bit dispiriting – to put it mildly, but where Sheridan was wordy, in fairness she?s writing a column herself […]A
WorldbyStorm - 10:34 Thu Dec 05, 2019 Thanks to BH for pointing to these two pieces, both contributed to by John Harris in the Guardian. The first offers a sense of the vox pops undertaken by Harris and John Domokos across the UK this last number of years. Perhaps the following is bombastic. Or perhaps not: We didn?t predict the referendum result. […]A
guestposter - 07:33 Thu Dec 05, 2019 One of the State?s most senior officials has said he would like to have the power to ?manage out? underperforming civil servants by paying them off.Robert Watt, secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure, told the Oireachtas finance committee he would like to be able to ?move things on?, by reaching settlements with underperforming […]A
WorldbyStorm - 11:12 Wed Dec 04, 2019 A pretty good RTÉ Your Politics edition after the by-elections hosted by Aine Lawlor (available on iTunes and in podcast form) with Aisling Kenny, Paul Cunningham and Mícheál Lehane along with Odran Flynn and one-time FF government advisor Gerard Howlin. What came across most clearly was the threat the renewed Green Party vote presents to […]A
WorldbyStorm - 09:12 Wed Dec 04, 2019 Thought this was interesting. There?s been a recovery in consumer sentiment – from a remarkable seven year low, in November. That low was driven by Brexit worries, rather than economic. And the recovery is similarly driven by Brexit hopes. Though it?s not a massive recovery. That [recovery] was back to the level it stood at […]A
WorldbyStorm - 08:42 Wed Dec 04, 2019 As CL notes… the vote was passed: ?Washington?Today, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution introduced by Congressman Tom Suozzi (D?NY-03) and Congressman Peter King (R?NY-02), which calls on the United Kingdom and European Union to protect lasting peace in Northern Ireland during Brexit negotiations. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D?NY-16) […]A
WorldbyStorm - 05:00 Wed Dec 04, 2019 As always, following on Dr. X?s suggestion, it?s all yours, ?announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose?, feel free.A |
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