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guestposter - 13:22 Sun Jun 16, 2019 As predicted during the week, someone thought Jeffrey Donaldson’s speech in Dublin was a serious contribution. Do some people not understand the backstop? That’s the question raised by the following from EH in the Sunday Independent… [Jeffrey Donaldson] made it clear that the backstop was both a boulder on the back of mainstream unionism and […]A
guestposter - 13:05 Sun Jun 16, 2019 …remembered here by Jason O’Toole in the Mirror.A
WorldbyStorm - 11:00 Sun Jun 16, 2019 From Sunday Times/B&A and they try their luck in giving a snapshot of opinion amongst the electorate. How close it is to the reality is anyone’s guess. FF 28% NC FG 23% -5 IND/OTHERS 13% +4 SF 12% -7 GP 11% +6 LP 5% +1 IND ALL 3% NC SOL-PBP 2% -1 SD 1% NC […]A
WorldbyStorm - 10:33 Sun Jun 16, 2019 Well, if news there was that someone wasn’t a serious thinker, it must be in the following, noted by the Guardian. Someone who has decided that freedom of speech means recruiting failed – and by failed, really failed UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin (aka some risible username, and yeah, who am I to talk, but hey […]A
WorldbyStorm - 08:35 Sun Jun 16, 2019 There?s a lot of truth in this piece here on Anne Frank which makes an appeal for an appreciation, not of her as a sort of mythologised heroic figure of perfection but rather a very human, imperfect, entirely normal young girl and woman. And to me that is crucial to understanding the reality of fascism […]A
WorldbyStorm - 13:42 Sat Jun 15, 2019 I?d long known about stars cast out of galaxies into inter-galactic space – Iain Banks wrote a pretty good, if enormously baroque novel set on the planets of just such a system ?Against a Dark Background?. But this from the Atlantic notes even more exotic interstellar travellers, that is stars from one galaxy which wind […]A
WorldbyStorm - 12:10 Sat Jun 15, 2019 In more ways than one. Speaking of Joy Division, here’s Peter Hook talking about New Order’s “Power, Corruption & Lies”. He has some interesting thoughts on keyboards/synths and working class musicians (around 4mins in).A
WorldbyStorm - 11:30 Sat Jun 15, 2019 I?m always curious about how cultural artefacts from the past survive. The idea in 1979 or 1980 when I started listening to Joy Division that they would be feted in an Irish Times piece forty years later would have been near incomprehensible. But, it has come to pass. That could easily be a function of […]A
irishelectionliterature - 07:06 Sat Jun 15, 2019 Found some No Means No on vinyl at home recently, had forgotten I even had it. The particular EP had been bought in a record shop I think on South William Street that stocked a lot of alternative records. It was a great spot for getting punk/Metal the like. Can’t remember it’s name. It may […]A
WorldbyStorm - 12:16 Fri Jun 14, 2019 An overview on Change UK on the Guardian ?Today In Focus? podcast is absolutely devastating and well worth a listen . Shambolic doesn?t begin to describe how rubbish they were. I wasn?t aware of some of the tactical errors they made during the recent elections – to me their whole schtick was clearly problematic from […]A |
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