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Bodies

Christopher Owens  🔖 It’s quite chilling to report that, whenever I began to formulate this review, noted American melodic death metal act The Black Dahlia Murder announced that frontman Trevor Strnad had died at the age of 41. Although no cause of death was listed, a number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline ended the post, leaving us in little doubt as to what had happened. While

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Denmark To Send Foreign Criminals To Prison In Kosovo

Matt Treacy ✒ Once again the shining star of European left-liberalism has proven that when the vital interests of it’s country’s citizens are at stake that they are willing to ignore the wailing of the NGOs and extremists.On Wednesday this week, Denmark announced a deal with Kosovo for that country to take 300 non-Danish prisoners in order to reduce the demands on the Danish prison system whose

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Who Was Manchester United’s Greatest Manager?

Caoimhin O’Muraile ⚽ As Man Utd engineer yet another abysmal season we await the arrival of the new man at the helm, Erik Ten Hag. A relatively unknown from Ajax Amsterdam who guided the team to win the Eredivisie, Dutch League Champions, so we await in anticipation for his arrival. On a brighter note the under 18s at United won the FA Youth Cup in front of over 67,000 fans at Old Trafford on

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The Ukraine War ✑ What A Waste Of Human Endeavour And Lives

Mick Hall ✒ According to the Guardian the US, congressional Democrats have agreed to provide another $39.8bn in additional aid for Ukraine, exceeding President Joe Biden’s request last month for $33bn including more than $20bn in military assistance. Senate leaders were prepared to move quickly to enact the new proposals, which includes an additional $3.4bn for military aid and $3.4bn in

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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, Let Us At Least Be CuriousPacific Elders Say US-China Military Tensions Secondary to Rising SeasAnalysis Exposes Big Oil's Plot to Unleash Climate-Killing 'Carbon Bombs'

Positioning The Left In The Ukraine Conflict

Paul Aylward ☭ I found the discussion between Anthony McIntyre and Mark Hayes both interesting and at times frustrating. As someone on the Left who supports neither ‘side’ in the Ukraine Russia conflict please accept the following commentary.As was clear in this discussion what we on the Left can all be agreed on is that this war needs to stop immediately as thousands of innocent civilians are