Comment on Where do they go? by Michael Carley
@EC and Liberius: Romanzo Criminale (the film; I haven’t seen the series) is actually reasonably accurate. The gang in it is the Banda della Magliana, who pretty much behaved as portrayed in the movie,...
View ArticleComment on Promoting more births? by doctorfive
US Christians of various hews are deeply concerned about European demographics, reflecting their own anxiety at home. Similarly a lot of people you find in the company of Declan Ganley; ‘thinktank’ and...
View ArticleComment on Soviet juvenile SF films from the 1970s by Starkadder
Fascinating stuff. On the subject of speculative fictions, an American writer had just won an award for a SF novel in Scots Gaelic : “AN AMERICAN writer has landed one of Scotland’s flagship literary...
View ArticleComment on Soviet juvenile SF films from the 1970s by PJ Callan
Its just come out in London that those slaves (which included an Irish woman) were members of a mad Trotskyite cult http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/slavery-women-in-collective-615106.html
View ArticleComment on Soviet juvenile SF films from the 1970s by ejh
Although this is not an Open Thread and one searches the Examiner story in vain for the term “Trotskyite”.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by Paul...
The story of the conspiracy to kill Kennedy was related by General Fabian Escalante Font in his book ‘JFK the Cuban Files.’ The book was followed by a Cuban State TV programme that named the 5 snipers...
View ArticleComment on Philip Chevron and “Under Clery’s Clock” remembered by Paul Wilson
It was a quite radical song for it’s time. All credit to Phil and the Rads.
View ArticleComment on An open email to Eamon Gilmore by Atlanta Traffic Ticket Lawyer
Aw, this was a very nice post. Taking a few minutes and actual effort to generate a top notch article… but what can I say… I put things off a lot and never seem to get anything done.
View ArticleComment on Wage inequality: Imagine if you will… by CL
This referendum was lost but last March “the Swiss electorate voted by a two-thirds majority to ban bonuses and golden handshakes and force companies to consult shareholders on executives’...
View ArticleComment on Soviet juvenile SF films from the 1970s by Mark P
Well, PJ has something of an agenda here. If this was the end product of a left wing political grouping, it was always likely to be Maoist, New Agey or lifestyle Anarchist, simply because you tend to...
View ArticleComment on Soviet juvenile SF films from the 1970s by Mark P
Christ, my spelling and grammar there is terrible.
View ArticleComment on The Left Archive: The Worker, May – June 1974, Socialist Workers’...
[…] Interestingly the SWM in Ireland was as late as 1974 calling for a vote for both Sinn Féin’s. […]
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by richotto
“Increasingly middle-class and working people who are not wealthy, who live prudent lives…” If only that were true what a difference it could have made. There might have been a bit of moderation in the...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by WorldbyStorm
There’s an element of truth there that prudence is not a virtue associated with the past ten or fifteen years and nor was it something the S. Indo was championing…
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by The Daily...
[…] There is something rotten in the state of Ireland. […]
View ArticleComment on Meanwhile, more on that latest RedC/SBP poll… by Jim Monaghan
In my opinion the Reform A are stronger down the country. Trad. FG values etc. In Dublin they will get a little. My guess is that a plethora of opportunists of all types will emerge. And like the far...
View ArticleComment on Seeing as we were talking about pay ratios… by Statsoid
Supremely dumb for this pay ratio to be measured against the <b><i>median</i></b>, no?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by...
I presume Lucinda and the Reform Allience will be following il papa http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/26/us-pope-document-idUSBRE9AP0EQ20131126
View ArticleComment on Seeing as we were talking about pay ratios… by WorldbyStorm
Fair point. I wonder was that an attempt to very slightly mask the gulf between highest and lowest paid? Interesting that Congress wanted to highlight the median too. Makes their efforts that little...
View ArticleComment on Meanwhile, more on that latest RedC/SBP poll… by Liberius
On the subject of margin of error, I’ve been doing some reading of late and as I’ve understood it there are separate margins of error (MOE) for the different levels of support. So for this poll I’ve...
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