Comment on Thatcher gone…. by CMK
No, the ‘prime enabler’ was the US bombing Cambodia back to the middle ages, killing half a million Cambodians in the process. We’ve had this one out before on the CLR but the Vietnamese were the ‘good...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher gone…. by doctorfive
Steve Bell http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-steve-bell-cartoon?CMP=twt_gu
View ArticleComment on Thatcher gone…. by WorldbyStorm
+1 Forbenius, your understanding of the history of KR is historically illiterate. From pretty much the time they gained power they were at war with the Vietnamese, and actually well before that since...
View ArticleComment on Thatcherism. Lest we forget… by Alan Hill
Missed by no one who worked for a living. Although it was those faceless fascists behind her from whence she drew her support that are still ever present. R.I.P. Margaret. You will be forever...
View ArticleComment on Austerity: First the bad news. Then the bad news. And then… the...
I’m glad somebody noticed this obfuscation around austerity v tight budgets. Basically there will austerity for ten years. Hemmed in by the 6pack and thr FCT. There will, however, be political problems...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher for One Direction fans by yourcousin
There is a world of difference between a single parent and Saddam or Milosevic. The fact that folks seem to think that they are part and parcel is I think a part of the left’s problem.
View ArticleComment on Thatcher beyond by yourcousin
A good friend in Liverpool sent me a number of class war items many years ago. The stickers still adorn my carpenter’s box at work. I imagine as a native scouser, and third generation militant unionist...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher beyond by The Broken Elbow
the claim that the belfast agreement was the product/result of the anglo-irish agreement does not stand up to scrutiny. the efforts by gerry adams and others to find a way out of the military cul de...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher for One Direction fans by Billy Payne
Not miffed at all. Like many others, I don’t really “care” (in the traditional sense) about politics; have much better things to do with my time and my emotional energy. Political people are the real...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher beyond by Pasionario
Firstly, on the Adams’ issue, I’m surprised no-one has brought up the accusations made by Richard O’Rawe in Blanketmen — namely that the British had made an offer which largely met the hunger-strikers’...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher for One Direction fans by WorldbyStorm
“I don’t really “care” (in the traditional sense) about politics;” Which of course is why at the first opportunity you took a go at the left.
View ArticleComment on Thatcher beyond by WorldbyStorm
I’m not sure the intentions, efforts or otherwise of GA or SF are the issue here. Those intentions were irrelevant to what the RoI and UK were cooking up. Nor are the explicit intentions of the AIA...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher beyond by WorldbyStorm
That’s an ‘if’ in terms of your first paragraph. I simply don’t know and there appears to be dissension on the issue amongst many of those involved. That said it actually has been raised in one or two...
View ArticleComment on Thatcher for One Direction fans by smiffy
Ah, the world-weary superiority of the internet big-man. It never gets old. *sigh*
View ArticleComment on Statements on the death of Thatcher by the Irish Left… by CL
Let’s hope there won’t be any promotion of militarism or of state violence at Thatcher’s funeral.
View ArticleComment on ‘The Top 400 Secondary Schools in Ireland’… by cheapest
Thanks for one’s marvelous posting! I actually enjoyed reading it, you happen to be a great author. I will be sure to bookmark your blog and will eventually come back in the foreseeable future. I want...
View ArticleComment on Austerity… keep on keeping on… by CL
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council,- ‘independent watchdogs’: meaning non-partisan and free of ideological bias. (yes. a great photo, probably a pose to create confidence)
View ArticleComment on ‘The Top 400 Secondary Schools in Ireland’… by CL
And the horse you rode in on!
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