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offsite link GCSE Pass Rate For English and Maths Lowest in Decade Thu Aug 21, 2025 17:00 | Toby Young
Just 58.3% of all pupils across the UK passed their maths GCSE this year, down from 59.5% last year and the lowest since 2013. But the percentage of students getting the highest grades was higher in free schools than other schools.
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It is simplistic to blame the recent spike in wildfires on climate change, writes Paul Homewood. A more likely cause is the rewilding of uplands, supposedly to cut carbon emissions, and poor management of forested land.
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offsite link Lucy Connolly and Ricky Jones: the System Worked as Intended Thu Aug 21, 2025 13:00 | Nick Rendell
Lucy Connolly's jail sentence versus Ricky Jones's acquittal shows not two-tier justice but two-tier laws ? the system worked as intended, says Nick Rendell.
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offsite link Dramatic Slowdown in Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Surprises Scientists (But Not Climate Sceptics) Thu Aug 21, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
The Guardian, of all papers, has acknowledged that predictions about the disappearance of Arctic sea ice may ? just may ? have been exaggerated. Paging Gore Vidal: Can we have that prize back please?
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As Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer urged restraint when it came to prosecuting people for social media posts. Why, then, was the book thrown at Lucy Connolly?
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 22, 2013 21:47 by Spade Speaks   text 12 comments (last - saturday february 02, 2013 11:16)   audio 1 audio file
Few things are more dangerous to a nation’s citizenry than when its leaders decide to turn on their own or selected groupings of their own people (and Jewish people should especially understand this). Tyrannical governments should be feared far more than various types of weapons—especially when tyrants have no or few restrictions on their own selection of weapons. The progressive idea of the 2nd Amendment was the notion that common people can have the right to defend themselves against tyrannical governments (including and especially when their own choose to turn on them—which has happened all throughout history). THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS CURRENT DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL DOES NOT WARRANT TRUST ENOUGH FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY TO HANDOVER GUNS TO THIS CORRUPTED STATUS QUO.
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cork / animal rights / press release Tuesday January 22, 2013 11:17 by gerard   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 27, 2013 18:56)   image 1 image
'doing nothing' is no option

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 22, 2013 06:04 by Alexander Selkirk
It's their party, and they'll cry if they want to:
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday January 21, 2013 21:26 by Elric
Read about the late Aaron Swartzs association with WikiLeaks. Full text at link.

In a series of tweets, WikiLeaks disclosed that deceased Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz may have contributed to the organization and had even been in contact with Julian Assange. WikiLeaks said it was divulging this information “due to the investigation into the Secret Service involvement with #AaronSwartz.”

Swartz, who committed a suicide on Jan. 11, was arrested two years ago for breaking and entering into an MIT storage closet and accessing an Acer laptop that he programmed to download millions of scholarly articles from the JSTOR database. The Secret Service took charge of the Swartz investigation two days before his arrest and provided the prosecution with information that led to its harsh pursuit of the 26-year-old.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday January 21, 2013 19:25 by ICTU
Seminar - Making the Case for Decent Work
24 January 2013

Making the Case for Decent Work - Seminar -

Registration - 9.30am

Advance registration for this event is essential to guarantee a place. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Monday January 21, 2013 19:02 by CPIR   text 5 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2013 20:32)
Statement of the Communist Party of the Irish Republic: Deformed Justice from Two Deformed States read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 21, 2013 16:48 by Irish Volunteers Commemorative Organisation
IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE EXHIBITION/ DISPLAY
The Irish Volunteer Commemorative Organisation is happy to announce an exhibition, and display on Saturday, March 23, 2013.
This year 2013,marks the 100.th anniversary of the foundation of The Irish Volunteers.

The event will take place at the Middle Parish Community Centre, Grattan Street,Cork city.It is centrally located, public car parking is across the road.
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cork / arts and media / event notice Monday January 21, 2013 15:03 by Eric   image 1 image
Join us in Solidarity Books on Wednesday Dec. 23rd at 8pm, for a showing of ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ (1948) 126 mins, Dir. John Huston ' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday January 21, 2013 10:43 by Solidarity   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 16, 2013 20:32)
This past Saturday marked 7 months since Julian Assange entered the Ecuadoran embassy in London http://tinyurl.com/b5wv2s6 seeking asylum from U.S. persecution. The embassy remains surrounded 24/7 by British police. Anti-war & human rights activists maintain a daily vigil 2pm-5pm. Yesterday photo http://tinyurl.com/ad4jgj2 read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday January 21, 2013 03:57 by lefty
Scandalous situation. Charity shops belonging to altruistic organisations such as St Vincent De Paul and Oxfam, helping the disadvantaged are expected to pay thousands in rates while the cushy offices of the Taoiseach, currently screwing the disadvantaged, are totally exempt. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / other press Monday January 21, 2013 03:39 by lefty
Interesting story in the independent regarding the promissory notes. The government is so worried that they have assembled a crack team of expensive lawyers (paid for by the people) to act against the interests of the people. Noonan, attendee of the last bilderberg meeting is apparently hopping mad that his new banking friends in Europe may have a problem getting all the billions of our money on time, which might require emergency legislation. read full story / add a comment
Sunday Independent 20 January 2013 - Eoghan Harris exposed - plus censored letter - click to read
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 20, 2013 22:49 by Tom Cooper   text 3 comments (last - saturday january 26, 2013 11:39)   image 6 images   video 3 video files   1 attached file
Harris announced on 13 January that he, like the Sunday Independent paper edited by Anne (formerly Mrs) Harris, has been ‘silent’ on loyalist flag riots in the North of Ireland. The riots started out as an attack on the moderate unionist Alliance Party. Alliance brokered a compromise on Belfast City Council that permitted flying the Union Jack flag on 18 ‘designated’ days per year. The SDLP and Sinn Fein plan had been for either a shared no-flag space in the council or for parity of esteem by flying the Irish Tricolour with the Union Jack. Unionists don't do compromise.

The DUP and UUP, egged on by the unionist Newsletter, put out 40,000 leaflets attacking Alliance MP Naomi Long and her party generally. Long took DUP leader Peter Robinson’s seat at the last British general election. A sore point. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / press release Sunday January 20, 2013 22:03 by Elric   text 9 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2013 18:08)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Abortion Rights Campaign established in Dublin today, 19/01/20130

At a national pro-choice meeting in Dublin today, the name and aims of the newly established Abortion Rights Campaign were announced. Groups and individuals from across the country, including Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Belfast came together to discuss and agree the next steps for the movement.

The aims of the campaign include legislation on the X & C cases and repeal of the 8th amendment to the Irish constitution. Actions and events are being organised across the country over the coming months.

Speakers at the event included Clare Daly TD who said, “The Abortion Rights Campaign is not a sprint, it's a marathon and we're here for the long haul. In the meantime, we want the immediate introduction of legislation for the right to safe, legal abortion when a woman's life is at risk, including from suicide. We also want the simplest, broadest legislation that includes the right to abortion in the case of fatal foetal abnormality. We will keep the pressure on until we get this." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday January 20, 2013 18:41 by Karl   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 22, 2013 13:03)   image 1 image
They are poisoning our communities and destroying Republicanism. They are anti- working class. They are anti-Republicans. The choice is yours.
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'Bloody Sunday' commemoration , Dublin , GPO , 12 noon - 2pm, Saturday 26th January 2013.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Sunday January 20, 2013 15:58 by Sharon.   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2013 16:22)   image 3 images
GPO , Dublin , 12 noon to 2pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday January 20, 2013 14:33 by Elric
Larry Everest shows that Sanctions are War by other means. Sanctions are Weapons of Mass Destruction. Full text at link.

The U.S. claims that its sanctions are only aimed at Iran 's government—the Islamic Republic—and its top leaders. But because the U.S. and its big power allies (Germany, France, Britain and other European countries) are sanctioning and embargoing Iranian banks, they have crippled Iran's ability to pay for urgently needed imports—including medicines—and halted many shipments. In addition, many drugs and needed chemicals aren't getting into Iran thanks to the banning under the sanctions of "dual-use" chemicals with possible military applications.

"Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with serious illnesses have been put at imminent risk by the unintended consequences of international sanctions, which have led to dire shortages of life-saving medicines such as chemotherapy drugs for cancer and bloodclotting agents for haemophiliacs," Guardian UK . read full story / add a comment
Art - a Composite of Van Gogh's 'Exercise Yard' & Munch's 'Scream' by Prisoner Mick Connors.
mayo / environment / feature Sunday January 20, 2013 00:05 by Niall Harnett   text 32 comments (last - thursday april 04, 2013 22:01)   image 6 images
An insight into prison life in Ireland, namely Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon.

On 21st April 2010 I was convicted of assaulting a number of Gardaí in relation to Shell to Sea protests and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. Remission for good behaviour means that prisoners will have their sentences reduced by a quarter, once you keep your nose clean. I was given credit for 2 weeks time served previously in 2009, before I was bailed out pending my appeal.

So I spent 4 months in jail from April to August in the summer of 2010. read full story / add a comment
Terrorising animals for fun is not sport
international / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday January 19, 2013 18:12 by Protecting the Irish Hare   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 20, 2013 14:54)   image 3 images
If you can't trust the messenger, how can you trust the message? read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday January 19, 2013 12:32 by Right to Know Right Now Coalition   image 1 image
Still enough time for FOI – if House leadership supports it. With only nine session days remaining before Congress adjourns for a long election break, members of the Right to Know Right Now Coalition are reminding members of Congress that they still have enough time to pass the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill even without the prodding of Malacanang. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday January 18, 2013 22:02 by lefty
In case you missed them, here are two provocative videos featuring Max Keiser and others. One from Kilkennomics festival where Bill black and Max tell it as it is to a squirming Pat Rabbitte, and a post mortem on Max's own show with Stacy Herbert, where the lies and deceptions of Michael Noonan are laid bare. read full story / add a comment
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