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Looking After Jo Jo ✑ Heroin, Decay And Decline In 1980’s Edinburgh

Brandon Sullivan 🎥 I chanced upon a random article in Edinburgh Live which talked about the cast of Looking After Jo Jo, a seminal BBC series which looks at the criminal underworld of Edinburgh and its movement into heroin dealing. The comparisons with Trainspotting are inevitable, but it has more in common with Alive and Kicking, the underrated, often overlooked, drama starring Lenny Henry as

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of Two Hundred And Nine

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 CuriousDefying Schultz's Union-Busting, Starbucks Workers Rack Up Win After WinLeaked Video Reveals Starbucks CEO Urged Managers to Ramp Up Union-Busting

#HappyFastDefying

Maryam Namazie ✒ It’s opposite of #HappyRamadan #Ramadan Kareem #RamadanMubarak. #Ramadan’s a bleak month where people are tortured, beaten, shunned, imprisoned for not submitting to fasting rules like in #Iran. #HappyFastDefying #FastDefyingKareem #DontGiveADamn4RamadanMaryam Namazie is an Iranian-born activist and Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All.

Dragon Day

Christopher Owens  🔖 Universities.Places that produce the future architects of our society and are ground zero for cultural battles (for good or for bad), they are ripe material for fiction. And, with the recent cultural battles now dominating mainstream discourse, it’s good to see writers stepping up and tackling it head on. Described as “…a tragicomic glimpse at America's culture war and

A Morning Thought @ 1426

Stormont Election Does Not Make Border Poll Much More Likely ✑ Under Good Friday Agreement Provisions

Matt Treacy ✒ The results of the Northern Ireland Assembly elections have been heralded as historic and possibly signalling a radical change in the constitutional position of the six counties as a part of the United Kingdom.There is no doubt but that the results represented a triumph for Sinn Féin whose ability to run elections efficiently was no better illustrated than the manner in which they

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of Two Hundred And 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, Let Us At Least Be CuriousMacron - don't humiliate PutinRussian Officials Must Be Held to Account for Documented War Crimes: AmnestyUkraine war: 'If this is true, then I am also

In Quillversation With Mark Hayes @ Ⅲ

Mark Hayes discusses the War In Ukraine, amongst other things, with Anthony McIntyre. It was part of a WhatsApp conversation on the current situation in Ukraine where old friends vigorously disagreed . . . but still remained old friends! Mark Hayes felt it would be of interest to TPQ readers, and his partner very generously transcribed it. The only amendments were for typos, grammar or tidying..

A Morning Thought @ 1425

Russian Soldiers Killed That Family, Just . . . Because

People And Nature ☭ By Anatoly Dubovik in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine.7-April-2022On social media people are arguing about the reasons for the massacres at Bucha, Irpen and other places in Kyiv region. They are not asking why, so much as “for what reason”, with what aim? I have my opinion, as follows.At the beginning of March, I heard a woman, who had been able to get out of occupied Melitopol with