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Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
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 »
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Legion of the Rearguard – Dissident Irish Republicanism by Martyn Frampton, Book Review
Are you confused about ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism? Anxious about its existence and its seemingly increasingly deadly capabilities? Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2011) serves both as a primer on active dissident groups and a timely analysis of their historic significance and contemporary capabilities. This book clears [...] read our review »
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Is Fianna Fail the new Woolworths of Irish politics?
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 »
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Comment on Euro crisis: When “earth’s proud empires pass away”…
on 19 May 2012 at 11:29 am
But i suppose empires in decline is what had a lot of people reaching out and demanding a lot of cheap and easy credit – to sustain a level and standard of living that passed away years ago.
Surely more need to tax the rich more now than ever in order to keep society together.
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Comment on Euro crisis: When “earth’s proud empires pass away”…
on 19 May 2012 at 11:27 am
I think the problem is more so to do with financial globalisation interfering with European (euro) economic governance.
National banks blowing out international levels of credit – which was pumped into property etc but now needs repaid out of european economies that simply just aren’t profitable or dynamic enough to pull it off and pay this all back. That’s why it is toxic debt. Globalisation gone wrong.
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Comment on Man City’s real triumph may be the undoing of Premiership’s featherbedding of past champions…
on 14 May 2012 at 9:47 pm
nice twist and finish to the EPL all the same. loved it.
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Comment on Man City’s real triumph may be the undoing of Premiership’s featherbedding of past champions…
on 14 May 2012 at 9:42 pm
It has turned out to be a bit of a Sky/Man U EPL cartel; however, your ‘gating off’ argument might have more to do with the state of play of the teams when the ‘gating off’ occurred rather than a policy designed to see Man U win the most times.
Also Sky didn’t really invest in Man U in shares till, I think, 1998 or so.
In relation to ‘gating off’, I’m thinking that teams that were on the rise and those on the fall have been pretty much stuck in that trend, but i don’t think it was necessarily by design, for example, if the ‘gating off’ had happened in 1982 it would have been Liverpool on the up and they would likely just be another Man U.
That’s what happens with a winner takes all approach to the EPL, although as others have pointed out a long with me previously, Blackburn – a previous promotee and EPL winner, have gone down and Liverpool – a usual top four contender and finisher – has finished 9th or is it even lower now?
Management does come into it and imo plays a significant part along with the cash.
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Comment on Community silence starting to break over abuse in Lancashire?
on 12 May 2012 at 12:27 pm
Just came across this page on BBC, Labour MP for Rochdale lays it out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18005266
“It would be daft not to believe that race plays a part.”
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Comment on Community silence starting to break over abuse in Lancashire?
on 12 May 2012 at 12:11 pm
Why the assumption that underage sex and teenage pregnancy cannot be stopped, merely accommodated?
It most certainly can’t be stopped, unless you are advocating a sort of totalitarian approach either by the family or the state.
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Comment on Community silence starting to break over abuse in Lancashire?
on 11 May 2012 at 3:14 pm
I would be prepared to go along with some of Harry’s analysis about some teens being less inhibited sexually, although this certainly doesn’t mean that those teenage girls who are less concerned about having sex (and feel at ease allowing statutory rape) should end up forcibly raped, gang raped and totally abused, because at one point – foolishly maybe – they might have been open to the idea of sex with someone they thought they liked and were on the level with, albeit older, asian, or whatever.
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Comment on Community silence starting to break over abuse in Lancashire?
on 11 May 2012 at 1:12 am
You can raise the lack of convictions if you want I am responding to a thread about a specific conviction, but you say i am lame and a coward because i have failed to broaden it out and have a wider debate covering male desires for underage sex and rape, instead i focus on ‘them’. If the thread was about that topic in general, you might have a point, but it isn’t.
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Comment on Community silence starting to break over abuse in Lancashire?
on 10 May 2012 at 11:50 pm
Because basically a different approach is probably required when looking for a solution of sorts. I’m think breaking down group-power in comparison to the ‘sovereign individual’ who takes the law into his or her own hands.
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Comment on Community silence starting to break over abuse in Lancashire?
on 10 May 2012 at 11:44 pm
I don’t dispute what you are saying but tell that to the victims who have specific experiences of a specific situation which imo deserves a specific analysis.
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