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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 New Vision for the Catholic Church – Book Review
The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of the [...] read our review »
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Round up of Tuesday’s Political Studies Association conference
If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the late [...] read our review »
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Comment on Slugger Awards (Media) Pitches:The ‘Light a candle’ category
on 5 October 2010 at 11:25 pm
The added words “look for future employment” would have made some sense of the sentence ending “young people”
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Comment on Slugger Awards (Media) Pitches:The ‘Light a candle’ category
on 5 October 2010 at 11:22 pm
I’m afraid that although I proposed this category I did not really know who might be a worthy recipient. When it comes to gossip or investigation we are pretty familiar with what it looks like, but serious positive longish form factual. Nah! you would read a book or look online, you would almost certainly look outside Northern Ireland.
Which is a pity because although we are rightly seen as a centre for sport and music the contribution of science and business is much more of a specialist interest which has an inevitable consequence when young people.
That there is a hunger for much better scientific journalism is evidenced by the popularity of this article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1
Which apparently was the most read Guardian online article last week or so it says here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof
What would a spoof of a typical N.I. business, science or education article look like?
Or could it not be spoofed because the quality is so high?
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Comment on NI Water: “As for the minister, he’s not commenting…”
on 6 August 2010 at 4:28 pm
This is so crying out for the application of a simulation solution. It is not really my field. My guess is that Paul Evans might know what the right tool is.
I was musing on the difficulty that the MSM is having in covering this story. I did take Mick’s advise and had a go at watching all of the PAC meeting. I could only take an hour.
Could we start a thread on how to go forward with information presentation?
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Comment on NI Water: “The permanent secretary accidently hit the caps button”
on 5 August 2010 at 2:12 pm
From the Newsletter article.
“The department’s comments follow the leak of an email from DRD’s permanent secretary, Paul Priestly, relating to an independent probe into a multi-million pound contracts fiasco at Northern Ireland Water.”
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/105767269454229449877/NIWaterFOIAndOtherDocuments#
So let me get this right. Putting in a FOI and getting a response constitutes a ‘leak’
Maybe that is Water Service slang.
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Comment on Summer Quiz (2)
on 1 August 2010 at 6:20 pm
“However, there was a photograph of O’Reilly, extended and horizontal, crossing the line with four South Africans attached to his various parts. ”
I do worry that the actual photograph will not live up to my mental picture based on that description.
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Comment on “They are one and the same thing as far as we’re concerned…”
on 26 July 2010 at 2:58 pm
Is there a political fund opt in/out in ROI? In the UK individual Trade Unionists can choose not to have a portion of their membership fee paid to any political party (usually Labour).
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Comment on First city of culture.
on 18 July 2010 at 10:43 am
Well we have Newcastle-Gateshead and Manchester-Salford. Why not call the city on one side of the Foyle Derry and the other city Londonderry?
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Comment on Dublin : What a difference 30 years makes!
on 17 July 2010 at 8:06 pm
Mammy
What is a factory?
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Comment on What a difference 5 years make
on 13 July 2010 at 10:15 pm
The Dutch are currently in the throes of a massive theological dispute about the the purity and soul of their football. And quite right too. If only the other Orange had a capacity for reflection
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Comment on Will the coalition cuts stick?
on 11 July 2010 at 6:26 pm
What is it with deaf ideologically driven Education Ministers? I thought we had cornered the market.
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