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“Carol Thatcher. Why can’t the BBC be consistent..?”
Iain Dale is asking why the BBC cannot be consistent in its treatment of staff who have offended due to racism. He writes: Chris Moyles is Radio 1′s star DJ. Two years ago he was involved, on air, in an incident which led to him being accused of racism. Halle Berry, no less, felt that [...] more »
“just as long as Basil McCrea isn’t hosting it…”
According to tonights Belfast Telegraph Sinn Fein’s Daithi Mc Kay wants to bring the parliament to the people by placing it on video sharing website you tube. He added: “If a satellite channel were to be introduced which covered Assembly proceedings I’m sure that the public would make use of it, just as long as [...] more »
Billy Hutchinson.
I’ve asked Billy to do an interview for slugger and he has agreed. Billy has agreed to answer questions from slugger readers interested either in loyalism generally, the PUP or the loyalist experience within Long Kesh. Any questions you have I will bring with me tomorrow …. more »
“casualties of war..”
An interesting debate took place yesterday on Radio Free Eireann. Anthony McIntyre and Tommy McKearney discuss with the radio hosts the developments of this past week regarding Eames and Bradley. It’s a twenty minute or so discussion and it can be found here. (Scroll down to RFE Sat Jan 31.) However as arguments have developed [...] more »
BBC Bias….??
The BBC has come in for some criticism this week with An Phoblacht in its column called media view reporting on Blackouts and Blanket bans and quotes Bairbre de Brun over the BBC’s refusal to broadcast a humanitarian aid appeal for the people in Gaza. over on you tube the use of this picture in [...] more »
“and he’s opposed to her because she’s a woman with power….”
On the Nolan show this morning there was an interesting little exchange between John O’Dowd and Nelson McCausland. From John O’Dowd. Nelson is not opposed to Catriona Ruane on the basis of her educational stance – he’s opposed to her because she’s a republican – and he’s opposed to her because she’s a woman with [...] more »
“British jobs for British workers – you said it Gordon Brown…”
A French company Total in north Linconshire awarded a construction project to an Italian firm who brought their own non – British workforce with them. (300 Italian and Portugese housed in their own floating accomodation in the UK legitimately as EU citizens)Today saw a major walk out of British workers at the refinery the third [...] more »
“a bunch of outsiders came in and stole, er, native lands…”
Ed Moloney discusses the causes of conflict in a wider interview on wbai (Radio Free Eireann) on the new role of George Mitchell in the middle east. It’s as if like the reason why there are conflicts is because you know people are irrational and they’re like spoiled kids or misbehaved kids or undisciplined kids [...] more »
Danny Morrison speaks at Experiences in Political Conflict.
Some footage of Danny at the Waterfront Hall event on Saturday. Good audio, mainly because he spoke into the microphone. He speaks about his history, sitting beside him are two loyalists ex prisoners who also told their history. Martin Lynch wrote that Danny’s book Then the walls came down influenced him in writing the play. [...] more »
The SDLP’s Justice for the innocent….
I’m sorry to say I did not get to the Justice for the innocent talk organised by the SDLP at their party conference yesterday. It began at 1.15 in the afternoon,in the bunker room and by the time we’d finished interviewing Mr Durkan the discussion was over and we arrived as people were coming out. [...] more »
Alex Attwood speaks about West Belfast…
Slugger was able to catch up with Alex Attwood in the bunker room at Armagh City Hotel. The bunker, as its name suggests, was pretty badly lit – but Alex speaks about the constituency of West Belfast. more »
Mr. Mark Durkan answers questions from the readers of Slugger O’Toole.
Mark Durkan answers the three questions forwarded to me and chosen by Mick more »
Experience in political conflict. (Loyalists and Prison Officers speak.)
The discussion on Experiences of political conflict took place today at the Waterfront Hall. The excellent play by Martin Lynch The Chronicles of Long Kesh has generated a lot of discussion about that particular aspect of our history. While the prison story here is dominated by the provisionals, the loyalist and prison officers experience has [...] more »
The traditional route song…
2009-01-23-86319.mp3 – more »
Republicans need to get back to the internationalism that came from Wolfe Tone.
A contribution from a member of the audience. more »
4p.m. dead line for questions for Mark Durkan.
If anyone has any further questions that they would like to be included in Mick’s decision could they post them here. 4 p.m. will need to be the deadline, and Mick will make his choice and forward them on to me for Mark Durkan tomorrow. I would like to extend thanks to the SDLP for [...] more »
“His only crime was to associate with known republicans.”
Last night before beginning the meeting the Republican Forum for Unity gave Marion Price a platform to update those there on the situation of Terry McCafferty. Flier from the meeting below the fold. more »
Prison Stories.
In the souvenir programme for Chronicles of Long Kesh Martin Lynch writes about the books that influenced him to write this play and others similar to it. He mentions Jimmy Boyle’s A Sense of Freedom, and claims that some blanket men he spoke to actually revealed it was referenced at the beginning of their debate [...] more »
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Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
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The lost art of reading (or drowning in too much information)…
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
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The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman) – an insight into a newspaper that’s maybe not so fictional
‘news’ is often a polite way of saying ‘editor’s whim’ Given the shift from print to online and e-ink, maybe Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists was a suitable first first book for me to finish reading on the Kindle. Considering the economic pressures on the newspaper industry, his novel perhaps captures the spirit and soul of [...] read our review »
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