Comment on Ukraine and the shape of politics to come by CL
“if Putin thought that the west was angling to get the Ukraine into Nato, he certainly would have taken steps as he has to guarantee access to the Black Sea ports in Crimea and to safeguard military...
View ArticleComment on Ukraine and the shape of politics to come by FergusD
In saw in a paper today that John Kerry said that the Russian “invasion” of the Crimea was indefensible, he claimed that in the 21st century you can’t invade another country on bogus trumped up...
View ArticleComment on Ukraine and the shape of politics to come by CL
“Nato should refrain from interfering in Ukraine by word or deed. The fact that it insists on getting engaged reveals the elephant in the room: underlying the crisis in Crimea and Russia’s fierce...
View ArticleComment on On the runs… by Ed
I find it hard to take what McIntyre says seriously, not because he has an axe to grind – who doesn’t when it comes to the North or the Provos? – but because he doesn’t seem to have any positive...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 26th February 2014 by sonofstan
Does anyone know anything concrete about the *alleged* links between the ’79 Group within the SNP in the late 70s/ early 80s -that included Salmond – and SF? The only real info is that the provos...
View ArticleComment on The new cold (online) war. by Gewerkschaftler
+1 as to not having to take one or other of two repulsive ‘sides’. Or choose between two sets of oligarchs. As to shea’s point I doubt there was ‘EU’ action as such. The EU isn’t a unitary player in...
View ArticleComment on The new cold (online) war. by ivorthorne
I can’t help but think that there will be no good outcome to the crisis in Ukraine. That said, I think that when we look at the bigger question, we have to ask ourselves what we would like if we want...
View ArticleComment on Meanwhile… John Waters, reinventing the wheel of life… yeah,...
[…] in this piece on here back in 2008 (well, obviously doctorfive remembered and kudos to you)....
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent/Millward Brown Poll out today by The most...
[…] the speed with which the Sunday Independent/Millward and Brown poll arrived hot on the heels of the previous weekend’s Sunda…it does at least offer some means to triangulate perhaps the true...
View ArticleComment on Ukraine and the shape of politics to come by Justin
Roddy, you really are a laugh.I have a son at an integrated school. I have taught at an integrated school. I have never seen a poppy sold at an integrated school. I can’t say if people wear them...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th June by Rosemary
Your style is unique in comparison too other folks I have read stuff from. Many thanks for posting whewn you’ve got the opportunity, Guess I’ll just bookmark this blog.
View ArticleComment on Ukraine and the shape of politics to come by Liberius
“I don’t want to see peasants in the fields, but I do want to see families in the fields tending to their farms…” Sort of one contradicting the other there do you not think? As far as I understand the...
View ArticleComment on That UK SWP crisis… by Rosa Lichtenstein
So, Rosa has cowed you ‘brave’ revolutionaries into silence, eh? No worries: it’s sufficient for me to have demonstrated (yet again!), that not one of you can defend this mystical theory, which seem to...
View ArticleComment on The new cold (online) war. by Roger Cole
I would hope Bob Smiles is correct in saying nobody on this blog will die in what could spiral out control into a major EU/US/NATO war on Russia. However the Treaty of Lisbon which the Irish people...
View ArticleComment on Allocating resources by lottery? Yeah, that’ll work. by Michael...
That’s how the CAO allocates the last few places on university courses.
View ArticleComment on Voting At 16 by Liberius
Surely the most logical argument here would be not to have a disparate set of age laws but instead one single consolidated age of majority? What you’d set that to is the real question. On the subject...
View ArticleComment on The new cold (online) war. by Pasionario
It’s not relevant now but at the time Russia under Yeltsin was pro-Western. It would have made sense to scrap NATO entirely and come up with some other organisation that included Russia and the other...
View ArticleComment on Voting At 16 by Tomboktu
That might be initially appealing, but it does not take account of a number of factors. One is the rights of children as written into the Convention on the Rights of the Child which recognises that the...
View ArticleComment on The new cold (online) war. by workers republic
“you forget to add there are honest and decent people sickened by corrupttion and willing to make a stand and even to lose their lives to fight for a better future ” True and people have lose their...
View ArticleComment on The new cold (online) war. by Jim Monaghan
There is a difference between interference on a financial basis and putting troops on the ground. Russia, a revived empire has done just that. This makes it well nigh impossible to argue that say...
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