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WorldbyStorm - 14:25 Sat Dec 14, 2019 An anti-racism rally is under way outside Leinster House in Dublin.The ‘Rally for Peace on Earth – Against the Politics of Hate’ is partly in response to “small groups of anti-immigrant agitators”, according to the union Fórsa, one of the organisations involved in the demonstration.Pippa Woolnough of the Immigrant Council of Ireland said there had […]A
WorldbyStorm - 11:40 Sat Dec 14, 2019 Bowing to the inevitable, on 11 December Mladenov announced in a nationally televised speech to party leaders that the Communist Party had to give up its guaranteed right to rule. The BCP’s position in the state, he said, could no longer be “declared administratively”, but instead had to be earned “from the trust of the […]A
WorldbyStorm - 11:27 Sat Dec 14, 2019 Hmmm? think there?s a bit of piling in going on here – a Mumsnet thread linked to on the IT that takes Dublin to task. A lot of complaints about ?rain? and it being ?dreary? and ?expensive? (though some noted that post-Brexit referendum and the weakening UK pound that was a given. For my mind […]A
WorldbyStorm - 10:27 Sat Dec 14, 2019 Sad to hear of the passing of two Star Trek luminaries, first the remarkable D.C. Fontana, the first female writer on the series in the 1960s, who developed Spock. She died at 80 and had a remarkable and varied career, being a trailblazer for women in writing for television. My favourite of hers on TOS […]A
irishelectionliterature - 06:45 Sat Dec 14, 2019 From Toronto, Epigram are a post rock band that released two brilliant albums in 2008 and 2010 before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2011. It’s lovely and soothing.A
irishelectionliterature - 20:38 Fri Dec 13, 2019 The Guardians Anywhere But Westminster series has been excellent. John Harris and John Domokos finish their election road trip with a rain-sodden journey to Milton Keynes alongside enthusiastic young Labour activists, followed by a repeat visit to Stoke-on-Trent – where they watch the party’s working class vote collapse, the endpoint of a story Anywhere But […]A
WorldbyStorm - 12:40 Fri Dec 13, 2019 This from last week during the late hours of the election really struck me: Candidates in this election received abuse or insulting remarks in 16.5% of mentions or replies about them on Twitter, a snapshot analysis has found. PoliMonitor, supported by a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, analysed 139,564 tweets referencing the 2,503 […]A
WorldbyStorm - 09:39 Fri Dec 13, 2019 Aditya Chakrabortty in the Guardian had an excellent analysis here of one cohort of leave voters who knew that Brexit wouldn?t achieve anything but felt so distanced from political activity and isolated that any sort of protest was worth making. Given the results it is difficult to disagree with them. In one of the country?s […]A
WorldbyStorm - 02:53 Fri Dec 13, 2019 Okay, well this has been depressing, went to sleep around one, woke up at two thirty and then got back to sleep much later. I wish I could claim some foresight but I can’t, but I looked at those polls this last week and couldn’t shake the thought that a Tory majority possibly, say 18 […]A
WorldbyStorm - 22:01 Thu Dec 12, 2019 The initial results in. And… Conservatives: 368 – up 51 Labour: 191 – down 71 SNP: 55 – up 20 Liberal Democrats: 13 – up 1 Plaid Cymru: 3 – down 1 Greens: 1 – no change Brexit party: 0 Others: 22 (18 of these will be Northern Ireland MPs) Conservative majority of 86. It […]A |
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