Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 28th of August 2013 by ivorthorne
Ivan Yates is returning to Ireland and Newstalk. He represents everything that is wrong with Irish political life and the Irish media. He will prosper.
View ArticleComment on After yesterday’s vote. by RosencrantzisDead
Syria are not a party to the CWC, but they are a party to the Hague Conventions (and related <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol_to_Hague_Convention"...
View ArticleComment on Another poll… by Paddy Healy
Why Labour is disproportionately elevated in RED C Polls Below MB Raw is the “don’t know” figure given by Millward Brown in the most recent poll published on Sept 1 2013. EF stands for Elevation Factor...
View ArticleComment on Another poll… by PaddyM
Remaining figures are GP 2 Oth 18. Don’t knows are 36.
View ArticleComment on After yesterday’s vote. by EWI
One – Dictators around the World, from Burma to Bahrain, from North Korea to Saudi Arabia, will be emboldened to think that they can get away with gassing their populations if their regime comes under...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Ed
Did she come up with ‘Sandymount Socialist’ all by herself? It’s a new one to me, no doubt driven by alliteration more than any concern for accuracy; ‘Stillorgan Socialist’ might also work, I guess;...
View ArticleComment on After yesterday’s vote. by ejh
<i>Nobody in the West gave much of a shit about the oppression of the Baltic states by the Russians, and so it is no surprise that they have been bastions of pro-US support ever since they...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Justin
Has it occurred to RBB?
View ArticleComment on Zero-hour Ireland? What is the situation in the ROI? by Fair...
[…] sense with our values. And what are the compromises we have to make, and how do we minimise them? In a way this is the other side of the point made a few weeks back about Zero-Hour contracts, or...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: Pavee: Voice of the Travelling People, 3rd Issue,...
Liam Walsh and his comrades organised the first, a.f.a.I.k., political demo by Travellors , a procession of horse-drawn caravans thro’ Dublin City centre. Anyone of ye see it or support it?
View ArticleComment on After yesterday’s vote. by Roger Cole
The Stop the War Coalition played a key role in lobbying the UK Parliament to vote against the proposed US war on Syria. Ian Chamberlain of the Coalition will be one the key speakers on Syria &...
View ArticleComment on Another poll… by Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid | An Sionnach Fionn
[…] latest electoral poll shows Sinn Féin on 21%, just a handful of points behind Fianna Fáil’s 25% and Fine Gael’s 27%. So are we detecting […]
View ArticleComment on Fair Hotels campaign… and beyond that any thoughts on guidelines...
It’s a good campaign. But in relation to your question of how do we attempt to live lives which take into account such issues, it’s probably a slippery slope that leads towards a consumer-centric model...
View ArticleComment on Another poll… by Jim Monaghan
Expilicitly pro Troika down to 60%. I wonder how much of the independent vote Healy rae etc. is rightwing. How do they take into account independent FG.
View ArticleComment on Fair Hotels campaign… and beyond that any thoughts on guidelines...
It’s worth the effort because of the snowball effect – even a small ‘no’ in your life is subversive in today’s Consumer Society, and has the potential to lead on to encourage greater things. It gives...
View ArticleComment on The benefits of going to a private college? List them again… by...
+100 to all of that. Started watching the programme but just couldn’t stick with it. Maybe I’m just getting cranky but I’m approaching zero tolerance for apologia for elitist institutions.
View ArticleComment on The benefits of going to a private college? List them again… by...
From a unique data set identifying the school attended prior to university for a full cohort of UK university students; we examine the determinants of final degree classification. We exploit the...
View ArticleComment on After yesterday’s vote. by ejh
<i> claiming that any course of action would be a rerun of the invasion of Iraq when that is patently not the situation faced in Syria is not a good reason for anything.</i> You don't have...
View ArticleComment on Local and general elections. And state legitimation too. by PaddyM
By the way, is it me or have there been few – if any – voices raised talking about delay of local elections due to prevailing economic conditions as was seen in the 1980s/1990s? In an odd way I find...
View ArticleComment on Local and general elections. And state legitimation too. by Justin...
“I’m trying to remember when I first saw the term used, and I figure it must have been six or seven years ago, but perhaps it has a longer pedigree than that.” Not the most important issue flagged up...
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