Nothing much to add to Ms Lord’s majestic (Ah now, he doesn’t use words like that every day you know! – ed) treatment of the #picturegate #cowengate #portraitgate scandal… Except that now over on creative Ireland it is time for the revenge of the Photoshoppers… Of course it wasn’t An Taoiseach who was complaining, just one of his pesky servants… Ah but who, then, is behind this incredibly aggressive police investigation?
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] read our review »
If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the late [...] read our review »
It’s not published until 3rd March, but one book I recommend you place an advance order for from Slugger’s Bookstore is James Harkin’s Niche. Belfast émigré Harkin examines a number of stories from business, culture and politics and comes to a single insight: everywhere the broad middle is collapsing. He offers Woolworths as an iconic exemplar [...] read our review »
Miriam Lord’s piece was great but there is an unintentionally hilarious article by John Waters in todays Irish Times attacking the sketches as a cultural by-product of Internet ‘auto-eroticism’. Ah the coarsening of modern discourse! You’d never hear Brian use ‘toilet language’ or the dread F-word.
bocktherobber.com has some great blogging on this outrageous overreaction by the culture police. Waters piece is pompous drivel.
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