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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Tweet Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… [...] 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 » -
“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
Tweet To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made [...] read our review »
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Comment on PSNI responsible for “persecution of the Protestant people” – DUP
on 8 May 2013 at 5:05 pm
Mike Nesbitt cut a pathetic and lonely picture in that video.
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Comment on PSNI responsible for “persecution of the Protestant people” – DUP
on 7 May 2013 at 3:32 am
DC,
Say wha?
That petition is a joke. Only 173 people bothered their arse to sign it, and half of them are Nationalists taking the piss. One person who signed it gave the following rationale in the comments section:
“This is imortant for till tell the taigs that are human rights are more important then there human rights we as british citysins should be free to flow the fleg more than our bristsih sisters and brotehr’s in the rest of UK that is ekwallity as we see it more equal cos we love the queen and can whistle her n the dirty taigs own lee boo her n are paraids our not aloud to walk down taig streets witch is tradishingly who we yoused to get on tehre tits. Wear is the justice
Reminds me of the recent DUP petition over the “flegs / intimidate Alliance” issue. You know the one where the DUP didn’t ask any Nationalists for their opinion and got results showing 95% of Belfast wanted the “fleg” up 459 days a year
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Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
on 30 April 2013 at 5:47 pm
Harry Flashman,
Just a quick correction, you said “armies don’t commit war crimes against their own citizenry in time of war. The IRA can claim that nice little accolade all for themselves”
However, in recent years the British Army carried out the Ballymurphy Massacre, the Bloody Sunday massacre, were involved in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings (massacre), the Springhill massacre, the Miami showband massacre, and so it goes, on and on and on.
Those who live in glass houses…..
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Comment on Suárez bites the hand that feeds him. Again. (Updated)
on 23 April 2013 at 5:09 pm
Ruari,
PS….with regard to “luring talent”….money talks
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Comment on Suárez bites the hand that feeds him. Again. (Updated)
on 23 April 2013 at 5:06 pm
Rauri,
Firstly, Liverpool will not make Champions League football next year with or without Suarez.
What would I do with the 50 million? There is plenty of talent out there to be picked up for much more reasonable prices. For that kind of money you could bring 3 good players to the squad, and with the final departure of Andy Carroll this summer Liverpool can be assured of another 10 million for the overpriced center forward. I think Wanyama from Glasgow Celtic would be an excellent purchase for any English Premier league team, although I think he would be best as a holding midfield replacement for Gareth Barry at Manchester City. And Wanyama can be got for 10 million or less.
Suarez damages the Liverpool brand, but it will be a tough test for Rodgers as Suarez is exactly the type of player Rodgers wants. I would move him on, 50 million is a heck of a lot of money for longer term progress, especially after Dalgleish squanderd 100 million two years ago.
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Comment on Suárez bites the hand that feeds him. Again. (Updated)
on 22 April 2013 at 5:05 pm
He is a very good player, but I would move him on for 50 million in a heartbeat.
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Comment on Margaret Thatcher: A deeply qualified encomium…
on 19 April 2013 at 3:05 am
So she is exposed as a racist too, no surprise here !!!
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Comment on Northern Irish politicians now commercially indemnified against libelling members of the public…
on 19 April 2013 at 2:57 am
At the very least the political parties should be paying for their own insurance.
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Comment on #Thatcher: Ten Children Dead
on 13 April 2013 at 7:12 am
I knew the McCartan’s.
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Comment on #Thatcher: Ten Children Dead
on 13 April 2013 at 6:46 am
BlueJazz,
You are scum.
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