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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Tweet Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under [...] read our review »
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The Written World
Tweet Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in [...] read our review » -
Well meaning though it may be, I’m against teaching history to promote a shared identity
Tweet The historian Tristram Hunt has given a cautious welcome in the Times to Michael Gove’s controversial plans for the history curriculum in England, (£) a topic I raised last month. This is interesting because Hunt is also a Labour MP and pro-Labour reaction to the Gove proposals was generally hostile. Hunt writes: At the [...] read our review »
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Comment on #Flegs: “That’s what we, in many instances, choose to see…”
on 17 January 2013 at 4:18 pm
On my way to work this morning, from the Docklands to the Four Courts I saw a flag of St George, a flag of St Andrew, a Royal Standard, two Union Jacks and a Flag of Wales. This guys is talking out his [language, please? - Mods]. When HM was over last year there were Union Jacks and Royal Standards in many places.
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Comment on Has this guy crossed Dublin without passing a pub?
on 17 June 2011 at 7:32 pm
He’s walked right past the Conradh na Gaeilge pub on Harcourt Street. Has a great session on a Tuesday night.
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Comment on Margaret’s watch not chiming with backbenchers?
on 19 April 2010 at 3:58 pm
It seems that Margaret is taking her conservative rural base for granted. A growing number of young people in South Down from traditional SDLP families have been and will be voting Sinn Féin until Fianna Fáil get their act together and finally take the plunge.
While the economic difficulties in the south have done nothing to speed that process along, it remains the preferred option of a growing number of people in previously SDLP heartlands.
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