Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2026

The Joy of Six 1582

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"Watching him involved engaging a kind of cognitive dissonance: this desperate, thin man was the same person as a sweet 6-year-old sayi...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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"Profound isolation contributed to the deaths of more than 100 care leavers in England in a year, with a dramatic drop-off in support f...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

The Joy of Six 1551

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  Vince Cable makes the case for building more council houses: "The most compelling argument for councils becoming developers is that ...
Monday, July 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1547

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"The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious c...
Sunday, July 05, 2026

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"In many cases, lack of coordination and administrative errors in the Home Office cause failed removals. Complications around booking f...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Al Carns portrays Labour politics as a form of ancestor worship

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Embed from Getty Images Writing about Blue Labour in Liberator at the start of year, I suggested that: Maurice Glasman’s target voter is a ...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1533

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James Ball argues that Labour's social media ban for teenagers is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces: ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

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A network of Russian far-right extremists steeped in neo-Nazi antisemitism – created under the umbrella of a sanctioned oligarch close to Vl...
Friday, June 05, 2026

Northern Ireland debates the future of its railways in 1957

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From YouTube: The first documentary produced by the BBC Film Unit in Northern Ireland looks at the problems the railways are facing in NI. C...
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Sunday, May 24, 2026

The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes

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This review appears in the new Liberator – issue 435. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. The Shortest Hist...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Is The UK heading for divorce? An interview with James Hawes

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I referred to James Hawes's The Shortest History of Ireland  the other day, and I've just sent Liberator a review of the book by fa...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

The Joy of Six 1514

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Simon Nixon reviews Hettie O'Brien's  The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself : "This is an indus...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Joy of Six 1511

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"Opinion polls consistently suggest that after the elections on 7 May, England will be flanked by countries run by restless centre-left...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

James Hawes talks about his book The Shortest History of Ireland

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On Monday I went to the launch of James Hawes's new book The Shortest History of Ireland . I'm very glad I did, because Hawes gave a...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

A German bombing raid on Dublin in May 1941 killed 28 people

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Embed from Getty Images Here's bit of history I didn't know. The caption for this photograph on Getty Images says: Emergency service...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Ed Davey flattens Nigel Farage on human rights

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On 29 October last year, Nigel Farage put forward his European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal) Bill. You can read his speech in Han...
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Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1409

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Dominic Bryan , who has researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades, sets out what England needs to understand: "W...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Joy of Six 1372

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"What's happening in Gaza is a humanitarian and existential tragedy for the people living there, a moral and political disaster for...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Llandow, 1950: The worst air disaster the world had seen

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The national anthems at the Wales vs England rugby international in Cardiff today were preceded by a silence for the victims of the Llandow ...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Paul Marshall: From SDP researcher to right-wing media mogul

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The new London Review of Books has a substantial article by Peter Geoghegan on SDP researcher turned right-wing media mogul Paul Marshall . ...
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