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Propaganda of Peace: Media and culture during the peace process
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 »
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Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
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Comment on “blatant attempt to mislead”
on 18 February 2010 at 3:32 am
Last time I checked “Ulster” was supposedly “more British than Finchley” a point clearly missed by our Bavarian friend.
Fillean meal ar an meallaire.-
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Comment on The SDLP should decide which direction to jump
on 18 February 2010 at 2:37 am
Obviously on “Planet Danny”At this point the SDLP are still a “ a fully respected party.” Yet in the real politique they have gone the way of the Redmonities after the 1911 Home Rule Bill- into political oblivion.
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Comment on MI5 chief denies torture cover-up
on 14 February 2010 at 3:19 am
Regarding yesterdays comments from Jonathan Evans on covering up torture quite frankly they are laughable in the extreme. Last time I checked MI6 had responsibility for external security. That aside here again we have another example of the collective amnesia exercised by the British establishment when it comes to convictions for torture.
Given that in 1977 the British government was convicted of “Torture,inhumane and degrading treatment “of prisoners in N Ireland in 1977.Binyam Mohamed , extraordinary rendition, nothing new here.
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