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A Morning Thought @ 2749

Colombian Complicity In The Genocide In Gaza

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh ☭ writing in Substack on 09-July-2025.Photo: GOL, Colombian coal train.The Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, published a report From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide.[1] The report aims to explain how the corporate sector is complicit in the current genocide in Gaza and names the companies

Reclaiming Our Flag 🪶Why the Working-Class Left Must Re-Embrace Patriotism

Labour Heartlands ☭ Written by Paul Knaggs.The working class don’t shag flags — they stitch them, march behind them, and hang them out in solidarity.When the Left abandons cultural identity, the Right doesn’t just fill the void…they weaponise it.For too long, the British Left has been wilfully blind to a political truth as stark as the morning light: when we abandon our nation’s cultural

Studio Electrophonique

Christopher Owens 🔖 “Hard underground tracks with heavy Reggae basslines is a sound unique to Sheffield . . . The black scene, with its emphasis on hardcore and its emphasis on bass, has put ideas into whites and it has rubbed off onto whites into a heavier sound.”This quote, from Winston Hazel, may be about bleep techno (see Sweet Exorcist and LFO for examples) but it ties in

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Seven Hundred And Twenty 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 CuriousDrogheda United bolster midfield with signing of John O’Sullivan on loan from Shamrock RoversChampions League: Linfield beaten by

A Morning Thought @ 2748

A Morning Thought @ 2747

Frizzell And Lundy 🪶 A Secret Mistrial - Before It Even Began

Christy Walsh ✍ On 25th November 2024, the Families of Brian Frizzell, Alan Lundy, Katrina Rennie, and Eileen Duffy filed into the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast hoping for truth, accountability, and justice — only to be asked to leave again, because the proceedings were to be held in secret from them. What they got instead was a heavily redacted process, one riddled with

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Seven Hundred And Twenty Six

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 CuriousIsraeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: Family, Health Ministry“This Aid Is a Trap”: Crowd Crush

RUC/PSNI 🪶 Same Old Story

Caoimhin O’Muraile  ☭ Policing in the OccupiedSix-Counties was supposed to change for the better when the Good FridayAgreement (GFA) was signed. To a certain extent some superficial changes in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did come about. For example, the name of the organisation was changed to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), and recruitment of Catholics into