With the elevation of the DUP’s Sammy Wilson to the office of Minister for the Environment the Assembly’s Education Committee required a new Chairman. Step forward the DUP’s Mervyn Storey.. renowned thus far for his promotion of young-Earth creationism.. Perhaps we will now see those teaching guidelines adopted here.. We can almost certainly expect more skirmishes ahead in the battle against The Un-Enlightenment.
Is the best way to overcome the legacy of conflict simply to forget about it? Author and journalist David Rieff spoke on this subject last week in a seminar at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. Rieff has recently written a book titled, Against Remembrance (published in Ireland by Liffey [...] read our review »
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 »
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
Iris, Sammy and now Mervyn …
An elaborate practical joke perhaps?
What’s the opposite of evolution ?
Devolution perhaps
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‘Iris, Sammy and now Mervyn ‘.
Who would ever have thought it . Here we have the DUP brains trust more or less in direct intellectual descent from the medieval popes with the mentalities of the spanish inquisition.
Susan McKay wrote a book on the ‘unsettled ‘ Perhaps a new one is in order on the ‘unhinged’
“Perhaps a new one is in order on the ‘unhinged’
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Greenflag, that recent photo of Cowen with his hands over his head IMO indicated distress rather than an ‘unhinged’ state of mind. However, I don’t think Susan is likely to shed much light on the ‘unsettled’ Irish nationalist flock.
Here’s the British Centre for Science Education’s take on Storey and the Caleb Foundation
Cause for concern?