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Of the Old North and other Vanished Kingdoms..
I’m currently trawling through Norman Davies’s fabulous new tome – “Vanished Kingdoms” – Five stars in the (London) Telegraph’s review from Ben Wilson: All the nations that have ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand,” writes Norman Davies. “The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human [...] read our review » -
Ian O’Riordan’s Miles to Run: An invitation to madness?
Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have seen [...] 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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Lazy bones here missed the early bus to Belfast. At least Kathleen and Gerard made it.
Cameron Live
Nevin…Your link didn’t work !!
It worked for me Wm – I think you might have just missed the end.
“Dave” is Tony Blair mark 2.
The problem with that is Blair is yesterdays man.
And George Osborne is Blair 2.001.
These phoney Tonys look very lightweight for the economic times we are living in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/dec/03/obama-cameron-lightweight
6countyprod….what a name for a ‘unionist’…small ‘u’ intended…
I could post dozens of links about Obama and his track-record and crookery with the gangsters of the Democratic political machine in Chicago…..what Obama says or said about Cameron is irrelevant…..unlike Obama, the PM elect doesn’t get briefings 4 months in advance of taking office so DT will make an excellent PM when he is elected and sees the real mess of the books, left by the looneys of Labour