Comment on Why now? by Tomboktu
“Curious that they would be ‘files seen’ rather then a release of historical documents or similar.” Are old DDR files released in the same way the Irish National Archive files are made available in “a...
View ArticleComment on Why now? by Tomboktu
Derek Scally did a piece from the DDR archives in January last year and the January before that.
View ArticleComment on Why now? by doctorfive
Not sure but files seen by …. would imply they are not available to the public and something a bit more clandestine
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Comment on Why now? by Tomboktu
Or it might mean they were released — say — three years ago and Scally is only finding them now, and his “news” hook is they they have been seen. Journalism has lots of those kinds of formulas. Or it...
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by Wendy Lyon
<i>I see this brouhaha as an inevitable outcome of top down, politics</i> Is that all? Really?
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by Wendy Lyon
I recall that the Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group magazine, RAG, had an article about dealing with abusive sexual behaviour “in our communities” (by which they seem to have meant the loose...
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by WorldbyStorm
As I said to Mark I recoil at it as well, but I do think that the least that should be done is that a party eschew internal processes in this matter and make very effort to suggest the individual...
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by WorldbyStorm
The point of course being that if a crime is reported within a specific context – even the effectively less than formal context of a party or other organisation – then that leaves the organisation...
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by WorldbyStorm
BTW, file this under l’esprit de l’escalier, but I had modified my view on this from mandatory reporting in my first comment to one of going to the RCC in my second comment above in response to Mark P...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 16th January, 2012 by Depps
Via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ULADublinCentral), this might be of interest to some: 2 IMPORTANT NATIONAL MEETINGS OF THE ULA NON-ALIGNED HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED FOR THE TEACHERS CLUB, DUBLIN FOR...
View ArticleComment on That ‘efficiency of the market’ in helping us all develop an...
Story here that the authorities knew months ago that horses were entering the food chain illegally (apologies but the original story is behind the Sunday Times pay wall): “Sunday Times Article, 6 May...
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
Given that the SP are engaged in the same activity as the SWP, and several of their members post on this site, and given that it seems clear SWP DO read posts on the CLR, is it not unusual that they...
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
Some more background to the crisis. I’ll leave it at this. http://www.leninology.com/2013/01/swp-in-crisis-what-do-socialists-say.html
View ArticleComment on After the fire… by Jimmy Scutclife
“They depend for their continued existence, this insulation, and the level of prestige they hold, on the continuation of the capitalist system…” – this from the above post must also refer to the SWP –...
View ArticleComment on …making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or...
It’s a very moving film though, The Elephant Man.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 16th January, 2012 by Martin...
Interesting that Brits factored in the useful prospect of a stickie-Provo feud
View ArticleComment on Talking about flags – more from that RedC poll… by que
I’d buy into a Krugmanism on this issue and refer to the non-partisan commentator type. For Krugman its when non-partisanship is stretched beyond reason deep into being blind and saying there all as...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 16th January, 2012 by que
or why should the rich be able to game the system so you lose automatically
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 16th January, 2012 by que
“I worked in the Public Sector and morale was destroyed by the overpaid so and sos on top.” thats very true and I think you have to have worked in a public sector admin area to really appreciate how...
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