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Collusion 🪶 Time Is Running Out

Christy Walsh ✍ Open Letter To The Pat Finucane Centre And Relatives For Justice.🪶Time is running out and this letter comes as a public challenge to the PFC and RFJ to say if I am wrong about Mr Justice Humphreys’ unlawful use of CMPs in the Frizzell and Lundy Cases? I understood your initial concern about re-traumatising Families. Re-traumatisation is a valid consideration but, I

Drogs ⚽ Hoops ⚽ Screamer

Anthony McIntyre ⚽ We were back to our quartet last night for the drive over to the match, Ronan joining the perennial trio that invariably make it to the games and frequently to the away fixtures.Inside, our square didn't hold in place too long. With J's departure to hang out with his buddies we became a triangle - myself, Paddy and Ronan. Before J headed off I asked him for a prediction. He

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

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 CuriousCall for an immediate and permanent #CeasefireNow in Gaza and LebanonEgyptian and Iranian officials meet, discuss regional

Blade Runner 📚 A Movie

Christopher Owens 🔖William Burroughs and Blade Runner.Surely a construct that would have altered the face of reality? One of the most influential writers of the 20th century tackling one of the most influential sci-fi works of the 20th century? Sounds too good to be true. And it was, but there was an odd connection. In the introduction, it is noted that ‘In 1980, screenwriter Hampton

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

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 CuriousLiverpool's forgotten man eager to prove Arne Slot wrong and snub transfer exitLiverpool's season could soon be transformed and

A Morning Thought @ 2308

Are All Cultures Equally Valid?

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh writing in Substack on 30-September-2024.Kemi Badenoch, the contender for the Tory Party leadership in Britain has stirred up controversy through her comments that not all cultures are equally valid. (30/09/2024)She referred to women’s rights, gay rights and even hating Israel as signs of which cultures are less valid. Not surprisingly some right wing “

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

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 CuriousUK police raid home, seize devices of EI's Asa WinstanleyBombings, killer drones, and starvation: eyewitnesses describe Israel’s

Sub-Zero Homelessness

Gary Robertson ✒ Refugees and the homeless - scroungers all - send them back - let them freeze, not our problem or the “look a distraction” card played by many. I’m an old man now my wild days sadly (and at times fortunately) behind me, but let me regale you with the events of winter 1990-1991 in Scotland. I was a very fit healthy young man. I had my whole life in front of me: dreams

Portraits

Anthony McIntyre ☠ Belfast City Council has agreed to remove the portrait of former mayor Niall O Donnghaile from the City Hall. It is not quite part of the woke fad for statue smashing and monument moving as the request came from the DUP, not known for being woketard-friendly. For the dinosaurs it is about rubbing Sinn Fein noses in the dirt of a safe space where there is no risk