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WorldbyStorm - 14:16 Sat Jul 11, 2020 For those who might enjoy the book here, there’s this from Charles Stross from some years back, a cynical little tale.A
guestposter - 12:35 Sat Jul 11, 2020 Thanks to Edmundo di Corci for this tribute to Ennio Morricone: I’m sure someone will do an excellent This Week I’ve Mostly Been Listening To on Ennio Morricone who died today aged 91. However in the meantime here’s the only pop song he ever wrote which I’m inordinately fond of. He got the idea for […]A
WorldbyStorm - 07:34 Sat Jul 11, 2020 Though I’d long been a fan of Rory Gallagher (and IEL did a post to him some while back which you can read here), I only heard Taste, the first band formed by him with, in the very recent past. Then again, maybe that’s not such a surprise, there’s a lot of music out there […]A
irishelectionliterature - 17:58 Fri Jul 10, 2020 This episode covers The Four Irish Haemophilia Society candidates in the 1991 Local Elections and also covers The Monster Raving Looney Party appearance in the 1997 General Election in Dun Laoghaire. Available hereA
guestposter - 17:57 Fri Jul 10, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS(HTML) FULL ISSUE(PDF 17 MB)A
WorldbyStorm - 12:17 Fri Jul 10, 2020 Gewerkschaftler suggested this recently: I suggest this blog should have a regular (weekly) slot where people can post happenings at the personal or political level that gives them hope that we?re perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket as quickly as we thought. Or as the phlegmatic Germans put it ?hope dies last?. Any […]A
WorldbyStorm - 11:24 Fri Jul 10, 2020 This is pretty solid, an overview that has been doing the rounds on social media the last week or so using some excellent graphics of three instances of the outbreak of the virus and what lessons can be learned from them. Some clear takeways: Research carried out by local authorities revealed that almost all the […]A
WorldbyStorm - 09:04 Fri Jul 10, 2020 SonofStan brought up a thought last week about the present government, that perhaps Fianna Fáil in its current much reduced state might provide the mudguard to both Fine Gael and the Green Party. And it makes sense. Fianna Fáil is under serious pressure at the polls. It has arrived at the head of the government […]A
WorldbyStorm - 15:23 Thu Jul 09, 2020 Wonder no more: The ideal scenario is to try to eliminate the virus by getting to the point where Ireland has had 28 days – or two incubation periods of the virus- of no new unexplained community transmissions. ?If we had that, then we could more or less do a very widespread opening up. It […]A
WorldbyStorm - 12:25 Thu Jul 09, 2020 From the Guardian: The number of far-right prisoners convicted for terror offences in Great Britain climbed by a third last year to their highest recorded level, and accounts for more than one in six of all terrorists held in prison, according to official figures. And: The Home Office data shows that 44 ?extreme rightwing? prisoners […]A |
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