Anthony McIntyre's Blog, page 603

Comrades In Crisis Revisited

Bill O'Brien ☭ As previously stated, those who call themselves Communists in Ireland continue to be bereft of a decent Communist Party, as they now continue to divide into more personal animosity and bitterness.The most recent development has been the holding of a meeting in Dublin in recent weeks to relaunch what it called the Communist Party Of Ireland. This was made up of some lifelong

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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 CuriousHeartbreaking': Bonfire dismantled after man fell to his death in AntrimGovernment comfortably defeats motion of no-confidence put down by

Booker's Dozen @ Zak Ferguson

Zak Ferguson 🔖answers thirteen questions in Booker's Dozen. TPQ: What are you currently reading?ZF: I am reading Star Wars Brotherhood by Mike
Chen, part of the Canon timeline. So far, I'm not impressed. It is thinly
plotted with little to no character expansion of the characters we know from
the films and series and Lore.  I never
truly took much stock of the books, growing up, as most of the

A Morning Thought @ 1487

Fall of Roe Podcast ✑ Abortion Hypocrisy and Christianity

Valerico Tarico ✒ In Conversation with Chris Charbonneau.I usually hate listening to my interviews, but even I enjoyed this one. Chris Charbonneau is a forty-year reproductive rights leader. Her handprints are on virtually every important innovation in the Planned Parenthood sphere for decades.That includes them spinning off their own drug company to control pricing, opening a lab when

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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 CuriousFish and chips now 'more expensive than a fillet steak' as price triples to £24Spain's High Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Alleged Plot to

The Families That Still Cry

Brendan Curran ✒ with a poem from his expansive body of work. The Families That Still Cry The darkest days of 72 are still ringing in my ear, bombs going off in many streets, we lost so many dearPacked Into biscuit tins and paint tins, in the back of TV sets as well, the gelignite was weeping and began to smell like hell♞♜♝From Newry town to Short Strand, that curse spread wide and far, defective

All The Way With GAWA

Peter Anderson ⚽ Last week I tuned in to see the Northern Ireland Women's team in
action in their first ever Euro Cup game. It didn't go well. To be fair it
wasn't expected to go well , but you live in hope. The part-timers were up
against a very accomplished Norway and were 3-nil down by half-time. After the
restart though, Northern Ireland got one back. The hundreds of Northern Ireland

A Morning Thought @ 1486

Lower Thames Crossing? No. Stop This Road-Building Madness

Simon Pirani ☭ The UK government is planning a gigantic new road project – a six-lane, 22-kilometre motorway with a tunnel under the river Thames near Gravesend, Kent – while, laughably, claiming to be acting on climate change.People And Nature15-June-2022The Lower Thames Crossing would be the UK’s largest road project since the M25 motorway ring around London was completed in 1986. Cost: an