The Northern Ireland First and deputy First Ministers are due to meet Gordon Brown tomorrow in Downing St, when it’s expected he will reveal what funding he’s prepared to offer for any devolved Justice Ministry. In the opening discussion on Stormont Live today, BBC NI’s Martina Purdy pointed out the obvious. [Someone had to! - Ed]
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 »
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 »
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Yep. My inbox is full of notifications from YouTube.
So we pay these buggers to produce this and then when people view it online they claim copyright on ephemeral news broadcasts that are of no commercial value?
Looks like it. Worse than that, Pete adds considerable value to the content (at no cost) by editing the ‘ore’ down to the ‘essential matter’.
Fine if they paid someone else to do it for us. But in the meantime the terms nose and face come to mind.
Not the BBC but someone attacking Slugger/Pete by making complaints to YouTube so they have no choice but to close his account as a TOS violation.