Twitterfall has streaming updates from the media, protestors and people affected by G20 protests in London (though it is going so quickly, blink and you miss it). Twitpics seems to have gone down under the strain of people sending pictures through.
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 »
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
Extract from Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker: The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2010. Political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new executive in May 2007, closing yet another chapter in [...] read our review »
Usual suspects, commies, anarchists, treehuggers and professional rent a mob types ready to smash McDonalds windows.
BBC as usual breathlessly describing them as “angry” workers laid off in recent weeks, “climate change” activists and “anti-war” demonstrators.
It never changes.
Yawn.
Is it just me or is the British media gagging for a good old punch-up? BBC News and Sky News seem to be almost willing the ‘protesters’ to have a go at the police – not that some of the soap-dodgers need an excuse.
“Ya ya, I say Tristan let’s go smash daddy’s bank before our 3 o’clock tutorial”