This doesn’t look like a u-turn to me!
The only detail I’ve seen on Gordon’s u-turn is provided by Guido. If this is the extent of the concessions, then the only actual losers that I can think of are students. Like me. Thanks Gordon.
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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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The ANC, the IRA and the rise of influence of the left within Sinn Fein…
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] read our review »
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Aw, diddums! My heart goes out to you.
Good to know that the present generation of students, all on their McJobs, have sufficient time over and above their studies, to earn so much above the tax threshold to be hit so badly.
I assume Shilliday puts himself among the “young single workers without children”, and is telling us he’s earning earning close to £18,000. After all, if he’s at the bottom end of that band, — and it must still be over £105 per week/£453 a month, over the full tax year — he’s still not paying enough tax to notice greatly. To be so badly hit, he must be at the top end, so he obviously has a very flexible course of study or a relative named Conway.
As for the “detail”, it’s certainly not out in the wider public sphere yet. The trumpeted Guido Fawkes “scoop” is actually lifted from the Guardian photocopying a letter now in the Commons library. However, by one’s friends shall they know you.
Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.