Òraid Ghòrdain Brown a nochd, blog sa Ghàidhlig, airson a’chraic
This is for hard core linguists and determined political anoraks… Torcuil on Brown’s Guildhall speech in London tonight… Mar a maigheann e fein, ar son an chraic…
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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Math thu a Mhick!
Tha mi ag smaoineachadh gu bheil e math gum biodh Gaidhlig na hAlba ann cuideachd!
I also hope that any online news service in Ireland will also have Scottish content.
A-nis, feumaidh mi an t-alt a leigheadh!
…and now I know that Donald Trump is called …
Mac nighean Chaluim Alasdair Uilleam
Sgoinneal
Chuaigh mé go ceacht Ghaeilge anocht.
Now you f**kers are confusing me!
Go raibh maith agat, a Mhick. Caithfidh mé bliain go leith ag aistriú.
It’s great to see a well known speaker of Scots-Gaelic. Are there any others? I only know of a SNP Assembly member.