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Rejection 📚 A Novel

Christopher Owens 🔖 When modern problems have been addressed in modern literature, the results haven't been favourable.Be it the youth, urban professionals, social media moderators and universities, the humble novel has certainly tried to examine and embrace the online/real life brain rot that has slowly engulfed us all for the past 15 years but very few writers have been able to

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Thirty Seven

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousKevin Doherty hails Drogheda United’s ‘massive progress’ with European dream aliveDrogheda United 1 - 1 Derry CityJoey O’Brien’s

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The Appointment

Anthony McIntyre  😼 Left presidential candidate Catherine Connolly is being pilloried in conservative circles because she offered a job as an administrative support worker to a former republican prisoner in 2018.It is hard to see much in the way of sincerity in this criticism. It is, as Eamon O'Cuiv suggested, a puff of smoke, indeed a smoke signal conveying  a touch of alarm

British Election 2029 🪶 A Date with Destiny?

Caoimhin O’Muraile  ☭ In 2029, assuming the incumbent government last, the electorate of Britain will be due to go to the polls to elect a new government in a general election. At the moment the incumbent Labour administration appear not to be riding too high in the polls. The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, is at an all-time low in the popularity stakes and all in all things are not

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Thirty Eight

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousCounter-Terror Police Detain George Galloway At Gatwick AirportWho's who in Nepal's Gen ZIndonesian police seize leftist books. '

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Hybrid War

Jim Duffy ✍ The trouble often with world wars is that often people don't know if they are in one until after the event. Historians still debate whether World War I really started in 1914. Many argue that it started in 1912 when the Balkan League declared war on, and defeated, the Ottoman Empire in the first of two Balkan wars between 1912 and 1914, with those wars setting the scene