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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Talking to a brick wall: how to make politicians listen?
It took me a long time to warm to advertising agencies. The first time I worked with one I was working in sales management on Fairy Washing Up Liquid. I was due to attend a meeting at which I was to be told what consumers really thought of the brand. I remember my reluctance to [...] read our review »
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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
The House of Lords was the suitably grand venue for the London launch of Alf McCreary’s magnificently illustrated tome Titanic Port, a history of Belfast Harbour. Before I got a chance to take a good look at my copy, my ears pricked up when the chairman of the harbour commissioners Len O’Hagan said hopes were high [...] read our review »
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Comment on “Their creation does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or god.”
on 4 September 2010 at 5:30 pm
Dan Brown of course or was that an epigram?
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Comment on “Their creation does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or god.”
on 4 September 2010 at 5:28 pm
Cool Alan, much better than Dan Browmn
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Comment on “Their creation does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or god.”
on 4 September 2010 at 1:45 pm
Hawking is attempting to nail the quote mining from religiots of “For then we will know the mind of god” that finished “A Brief History of Time.” Nice to know that God of the Gaps is still the best they can muster in response.
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Comment on Beautiful Minds features Northern Star
on 9 April 2010 at 5:50 am
When reading books like Bill Brysons “A short history of nearly everything” I get a strange ache at how unfair the recognition of beautiful minds in science can be. Dame Jocelyn’s treatment by the Nobel committee and her subsequent graciousness cannot remove the overwhelming sense of injustice.
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Comment on “Nothing shows more clearly the scientific illiteracy that prevails in the House of Commons”
on 13 March 2010 at 6:12 am
Glad to see that my own MP Sammy Wilson has taken a principled stand on the side of science by refusing to sign
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Comment on “the Government should not endorse the use of placebo treatments”
on 23 February 2010 at 9:04 pm
Some confusion here GT, caused by the the use of the term Homoeopathy as an alternative and all encompassing term for all “natural” medicines. Let each treatment be judged individually in proper scientific testing. However the withholding of such information from patients to promote a placebo effect is morally and ethically abhorrent.
Along with Pete I eagerly await the forthcoming in depth BBC NI “investigation” into the CSTC Report.
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Comment on Fundamentalists, Repentance and Forgiveness
on 10 January 2010 at 5:33 am
Will Crawley Radio Ulster Sunday Morning
“As the political consequences of the scandal unfold, Sunday Sequence will be assessing the impact on Northern Ireland’s religious culture. Free Presbyterian minister David McIlveen will join James McConnell, pastor to the Robinsons, the theologian Dr Gladys Ganiel, and former editor of the News Letter Austin Hunter.”
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