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Feminism Left Politics Politics of Music

Downfall Redux

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018*Comment(0)

I’ve always found hero worship odd. I’ve never had rock n roll/pop heroes, religious heroes or political heroes.    Back in1979, friends of mine flocked to Knock, Dublin and other places to see John Paul 2. Although I was 13,and not from the community the Pope came to speak to, I saw a spotlight on […]

Human Rights Racism

From Ovid to Dante and onwards…

August 18, 2018August 18, 2018*Comment(0)

“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile” Ariel Dorfman This is a story told to me by a remarkable student. She attends my Philosophy classes and the classes I teach. Gabriela Inostroza de Gatica is very Latin, the native blood of South America flows in her veins. She is […]

Brexit Scotland Westminster

Brexit is Bedroom Tax on Steroids

August 18, 2018*Comment(0)

“Brexit is yet another indication that Scottish self-determination within the British Union is meaningless”
Sam Hamad talks Brexit, Scottish Independence, the EU and ‘Norway style’ deals…

Environment

Breakdown or break free: the climate choice we face

August 14, 2018August 15, 2018Possil DudeComment(0)

  It is August, which usually means a month of damp, cold driechness, just to welcome all the tourists to the Edinburgh Festivals. Instead, we’ve seen record summer temperatures, and several weeks of not only high temperatures but also very little rain. Northern Ireland saw its first hose pipe ban in 23 years imposed last […]

Left Politics

Being Wrong 2 – The Irrational in Politics… Who Makes the Tea?

August 7, 2018September 29, 2018*Comment(0)

    Things were so much more simple back when I wanted them to be. Solutions were easier. Socialism was the answer and what THAT was was plain to see – to me. Until I met the left organisations that call each other “comrade,” but hate each other’s guts.    Sorry granddad, I should have listened to […]

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