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Climate Crisis ☀ Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer

People And Nature 🔖 Review by Nagraj Adve of Nuclear Is Not the Solution: the Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change, by M.V. Ramana (Verso Books, 2024). Republished with thanks from the India Forum.11-October-2024Growing concern about global warming and its accelerating impacts worldwide have catalysed support for nuclear power in many places. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions

Climate Crisis ☀ Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer

People And Nature 🔖 Review by Nagraj Adve of Nuclear Is Not the Solution: the Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change, by M.V. Ramana (Verso Books, 2024). Republished with thanks from the India Forum.11-October-2024Growing concern about global warming and its accelerating impacts worldwide have catalysed support for nuclear power in many places. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Seventy Four

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 CuriousAustralia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departureBringing back learning during

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Seventy Four

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 CuriousAustralia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departureBringing back learning during

Flowers Blooming Fire

Christopher Owens 🔖 “Write as if you’re dead”.This advice, offered to U2 frontman Bono by Irish poet Brendan Kennelly, is one that Alexander Kattke has taken to heart when writing this, his new book (and his first since 2022’s excellent RedBlackInfinite.Billed as a work of pain and rebirth, here’s how it starts:I am at the edge of a mountaintop of so many sacrifices. My free hand is

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Seventy Three

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 CuriousDrogheda United shock Derry City to win FAI CupFAI Cup Final recap: Drogheda United 2-0 Derry CityDrogheda United win Sports

A Morning Thought @ 2335

Mandatory Social Service Or Insubordination?

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh ☭ writing in Substack on 30-October-2024.Photo: Gearóid Ó LoingsighIn a recent article on the decision of the Petro government to add extra money to an already existing contract with Israel for the maintenance of the KFir, whilst it considered the replacement of the planes, I commented on the Mandatory Social Service that the government introduced. I

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Seventy Two

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 CuriousBiden pro-Israel stance sees backlash after election humiliationParis protests gala for Israeli forces as Smotrich backs

Stakeknife’s Dirty War

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ This work by Richard O’Rawe is an excellent exposure of the IRAs Internal Security Unit, often referred to as the “Nutting Squad” by those who hoped they would never have dealings with it. The British Army and the ‘Force Research Unit’ in particular were guilty of sending men and women, many of them totally innocent of being a ‘Tout’ or Informer, to their