Comment on What are you reading this summer? by Tomboktu
Lowering the tone altogether: <em>Heart of the Hunter</em>, Deon Meyer, <em>Waiting for Sunrise</em>, William Boyd, <em>Phantoms of Breslau</em>, Marek Krajewski if...
View ArticleComment on My Political Position—–Paddy Healy by John Goodwillie
The reasons are, I think, more profound than Michael Gallagher suggests. He seems to think that the problem is one of individuals. I have no experience with the ULA but considerable with two...
View ArticleComment on What are you reading this summer? by doctorfive
Fortunes of Feminism: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1173-fortunes-of-feminism Tan War in Galway http://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/blood_for_blood_the_black_and_tan_war_in_galway/ The Outer Edge...
View ArticleComment on And across the water… by pangur ban
JRG You seem to be trying to engage in grown up debate but you really must try harder Given the juvenile tone of much of your comments if you joined the sp 28 years ago you must have done so st the age...
View ArticleComment on The intellectual life of the Irish working class… reprise by David...
This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while now. I hope to speak at the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Conference in November on the direction I think working-class...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th of July 2013 by Starkadder
Fed up about hearing THAT story all the time? The Guardian offers an opt-out: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/guardian-gives-republican-readers-opportunity-screen-out-royal-baby-coverage
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th of July 2013 by Garibaldy
Fuck the Guardian. I have the app on my phone, and it sent me a message announcing the birth. It went well down in my estimation.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th of July 2013 by Starkadder
I was just gonna say the opt-out only seems to apply to UK readers. The Irish Independent has it as the lead story.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say? Open Thread, 16th November 2011 by...
Hi there! I was interested to know if setting up a website such your own: http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/what-you-want-to-say-open-thread-16th-november-2011/ is hard to do for unskilled...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th of July 2013 by Starkadder
Taki is a Pat Buchanan admiring idiot anyway.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th of July 2013 by sonofstan
<i>Am I being nostalgic or were the threads in general better in those days?</i> Much different, anyway.
View ArticleComment on Nessa Childers MEP to stand again for Europe as an Independent...
An independent run for the S&D GROUP when Labour are running “a candidate in every constituency” is unrealistic and presumptuous
View ArticleComment on Nessa Childers MEP to stand again for Europe as an Independent...
Will the SD group let her be a member if the Labour Party says no? If they don’t throw her out before the election, will they let her stay after the election? What constituency is she running in anyway?
View ArticleComment on The Mills/McCartney case… the perception and reality of wealth and...
The other day, while I was at work, my sister stole my apple ipad and tested to see if it can survive a forty foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My apple ipad is now destroyed and she...
View ArticleComment on Changing the narrative about the household tax… by pub quiz names
The only hurdle to accessing this is of course human limitations and the fact that the brain does not function solely as a learning tool for the human being. You must definitely be planning to make it...
View ArticleComment on Weekly Worker Article on the SP by critical media review
Wasn’t the article written by a member of the SP? Not by CPGB member. Seems you are not addressing the actual issues brought up by quite a few ex members(myself included).
View ArticleComment on Weekly Worker Article on the SP by Sobriquet
“The article is from the Weekly Worker, and so is completely unreliable on questions of that nature. And indeed on questions of any nature.” The author of the article is (i presume) a still current...
View ArticleComment on Weekly Worker Article on the SP by Jolly Red Giant
The ‘slate system’ is a system used in some far left groups where the outgoing national committee would propose a slate of candidates for the incoming national committee and the members would vote...
View ArticleComment on Weekly Worker Article on the SP by critical media review
So what is it called when the leadership put forward an entire group of candidates that are elected in a single vote jrg?
View ArticleComment on Weekly Worker Article on the SP by Jolly Red Giant
CMR – the Socialist Party does not elect its NC by use of the ‘slate system’.
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