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July 26, 2022
Hunger At The Crossroads
Brendan Curran ✒ with a poem from his expansive body of work, this one penned while in the Wicklow Mountains.18-April-2022 Hunger At The Crossroads The birds had stopped their singingThere was nothing on the treesThe wind began to hold its breathNot a single wave in the sea♞♜♝The clouds darkened high above usThe sun nowhere to be seenThe rain thundered down upon usThe cold earth brown and green♞♜
Published on July 26, 2022 09:00
Tour De Force
Peter Anderson 🏌 The relentless drive to promote women's sport reaches a landmark point this week. The women's Euro Championship has reached its final week in football, and the inaugural Tour de France Femmes started on Sunday in Paris. I feel sure that the women won't let us down. I haven't been watching the live games in the women's Euros, choosing instead to follow the highlights, but it is
Published on July 26, 2022 01:00
July 25, 2022
Ukrainians Face Forcible Deportation And Conscription By Russian Forces
People And Nature ☭ Ukrainian activists in the Eastern Human Rights Group are using social media to build up a register of people forcibly deported from Russian-occupied areas.27-June-2022A bot has been launched on Telegram (see @come_back_to_ukraine_bot) to contact citizens removed to Russia.Men awaiting mobilisation by the Donbass “republics”. Photo from Eastern Human Rights GroupDeporting
Published on July 25, 2022 13:00
Lynx By Ten To The Power Of 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 CuriousTributes paid to academic and policing expert Vicky ConwayThe Worst is Yet to Come: When the Center Does Not HoldTrump-appointed judge
Published on July 25, 2022 12:00
How Do We Save The DUP From Itself?
Dr John Coulter ✒ If devolution needs to be restored for the greater good of the entire Northern Ireland community, perhaps the other political parties in the peace process need to band together to save the DUP from implosion over the Protocol? TPQ Monday Political contentious political commentator asks some exceptionally awkward questions.It doesn’t matter who succeeds Boris Johnson as Tory
Published on July 25, 2022 02:00
July 24, 2022
Dead Lions
Anthony McIntyre 🔖Slough House is not where old spies go to die, although occasionally that is the fate that awaits them. A “spooks’ equivalent of Devil’s Island”, useless spies go there. More accurately, those pigeonholed as useless end up there to scoop mercury with a fork until, it is hoped, tedium trumps their desire to go on, and they eventually collapse in a heap in the doorway of the
Published on July 24, 2022 13:00
Lynx By Ten To The Power Of Two Hundred And Seventy 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 CuriousCatholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuseEdmonton church fined $80,000 for obstructing COVID health inspectionsA
Published on July 24, 2022 12:00
On Abortion ✑ It’s Time To End The Silence, Secrecy And Shame
Mona Eltahawy ✒ A few weeks before the pandemic began, I was in a crowded art gallery in New York City, where I live, for an exhibition called Abortion Is Normal. Hanging from the walls and ceilings of the gallery space were paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations that depicted abortion, from the abstract to the individual experience.The gallery was buzzing with an energy that New
Published on July 24, 2022 09:00
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