David Cameron and the Sash his father never wore…
On a visit to the United Arab Emirates, lovely sash David!! And so, your captions place???
H/t to the eagle-eyed Stefan Stern …
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Risk of going beyond either/or…
Tweet This is article was first published in Fortnight magazine back in February 2003. Chris Farrington is now a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Although the circumstances it describes has changed radically [...] read our review »
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Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
Tweet 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 [...] read our review »
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Friday afternoon thread: Why confession works in a world of ‘cheaters’…
Tweet This is really worth watching… It suggests the very Catholic option of opening a new page by having a confession process does in the longer term help people to behave better… Presented by Dan Ariely, author of The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves. read our review »
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Forget the sash, wasn’t this hypocrite on a mission to the UAE to sell war machines whilst wearing a poppy?
“UAE to sell war machines whilst wearing a poppy?”
At least it was not China.
Selling arms to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE should only be considered if there are absolutely watertight guarantees over them not being used to commit human rights violations.
If any such guarantees are forthcoming, they seem unlikely to be worth the paper they are written on.
As Amnesty has already noted:
“… in 2009 the Saudi air force used UK-supplied Tornado fighter-bombers in attacks in Yemen which killed hundreds – possibly thousands – of civilians. In one attack conducted by Saudi forces on the town of al-Nadir in November 2009, so many were killed in just one extended family that witnesses say the family ‘had to create a cemetery for themselves’.
“More than two years ago we called for the UK government to urgently investigate Saudi Arabia’s involvement in this episode and meanwhile suspend any further arms supplies to Saudi Arabia.
“In the past a large Saudi chequebook has apparently meant it could purchase weapons as well as silence over its own dreadful human rights record. It’s time for David Cameron to end this deeply disturbing trade-off.”
“It’s meant to be orange you say? Hey bring that s-ash dye back!”
UAE’s first uncivil partnership announced, after typhoon romance.
For Allah and Ulster!
“Good thinking, Al Cameron, now no-one can steal coat off your back.”
I am still puzzling over Patrick Corrigan’s comments as I am having difficulty conceiving ofany weapon being employed against a human being that would not infringe his right to life and limb. Well, excluding a bolster waged in a pillow fight I suppose.
Why is there a portrait of Groucho Marx in the background?
“Bloody dyslexic advisor told me I was meeting the AOH. Not the UAE.”
When I heard they beat Barcelona 2-1 I just had to wear a Celtic sash!
D Cam looks like the winner of a west of Ireland Lovely Girls competition being congratulated by an admirer
DC on a fundraiser for the Ancient Order of Hibernians