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Swing To The Right And Aim For Unionist Unity!

Dr John Coulter ✍ There’s only one way the Ulster Unionist Party will survive long-term following the anointing on Saturday of Nesbitt Mark Two as leader - swing ideologically to the Right-wing and aim to create a Unionist Coalition with other Unionist and loyalist parties and groups. Earlier this month, I celebrated my 65th birthday. On 1st September 1977 on my 18th birthday, I

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

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 CuriousIsraelis rally in Tel Aviv demanding Gaza ceasefire deal to free captivesAuthor Jhumpa Lahiri praised for rejecting NYC museum

Drogs ⚽ Derry ⚽ Delight

Anthony McIntyre ⚽ Bluntly, few expected Drogheda to emerge with all three points from this one.Even the usually confident J, on the journey over in the car where much pre-match analysis is conducted, predicted a 1-1 draw. Despite only one win from seven at Weavers, the candy stripes are serious title contenders and were expected to preserve their position in the league with unflinching

News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 114

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 16-September-2024. In this week’s bulletin⬤ daily life in Kharkiv.⬤ photos and voices from a border town under attack⬤ nuclear escalation assessment⬤ concern about ministry for reintegration⬤ more Russian miscarriages of justice⬤ war crimes.⬤ Russia’s illegal deportation of Ukrainian children.News from the

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

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Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Two Hundred And Seventy 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 CuriousLebanon's people are finally free of Hezbollah's Hassan NasrallahUN General Assembly 2024: Diplomats walk out in protest against

Socialism And Electricity 💡 Renewables And Decentralisation Versus Nuclear

Simon Pirani ☭ Reproduced, with thanks, from Capitalism Nature Socialism journal, August 2024.9-August-2024IntroductionMatthew Huber and Fred Stafford’s insistence that “electricity is poised to be a central site of political struggle in the twenty-first century” (2023, 65) is welcome and timely. But the approach they set out in “Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid,” in Catalyst journal,

UK Mosque Says It's OK To Hit Your Wife!

Atheist Republic ✐ Two mosques in the United Kingdom were reported to the Charity Commission for recently hosting sermons where they said women should not refuse to have sex with their husbands, adding that a man can hit his wife if she refuses sex and that wives who refuse to have sex with their husbands have no right to receive financial support from their spouses.An-Noor Masjid and

Speaker Mike Johnson Tells Paula White’s Prayer Warriors God Has Chosen Trump To Lead U.S. A Second Time

Right Wing Watch 👀 Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson joined Donald Trump adviser Paula White on a call last night hosted by the National Faith Advisory Board, an operation White set up after Trump left office to continue the work she did as a White House aide to keep religious-right leaders solidly in the MAGA camp. Peter Montgomery The call was streamed by