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Sinn Fein Dominance In A British Assembly

Alex McCrory  ✒ with some observations on the outcome of the North's Stormont Assembly election.Sinn Fein achieved an historical victory at the polls yesterday. I say this even though I did not vote myself. Being a keen student of Irish history, I recognise the significance of their triumph whilst also being conscious of its obvious limitations when viewed in the context of the Good Friday

So Where’s Stormont Going Now?

Dr John Coulter ✒ Looks like Sinn Fein’s ‘Lipstick and Ballot Paper’ strategy has worked with the republican movement now the biggest party in the Assembly. But does that mean Unionists will agree to forming an Executive? TPQ Monday contentious political commentator poses some awkward questions.Securing its 27 Assembly seats means that Sinn Fein’s returns to Stormont today as the largest party,

A Morning Thought @ 1422

Meteorite Hits Dinosaurs

Anthony McIntyre ✒ From somewhere deep within the Heaven so many of them fervently claim to believe in, a meteorite was hurled at the Dinosaur Unionist Party, forcing it to retreat even deeper into the forest to ponder the discovery that its species is no longer dominant. Was it punishment for not halting the progress of women's reproductive rights, or did it have its provenance in the party's

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of Two Hundred And Four

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 Curious'Time to Take to the Streets': Mobilizations Planned as Supreme Court Targets RoeIf the Supreme Court overturns Roe, conservative Christians may regret

The Elephant Fable With A Twist

Michael Nugent ✒ The fable of the blind men and the elephant is often used to show how humans cannot understand god. Here’s a version with a different ending.A wise man met six scholarswho were having quite a fightdeciphering an elephantwithout the gift of sightEach described what they had feltand claimed the beast must belike a fan or wall or ropeor snake or spear or tree♜ ♞ ♟The wise man told

Protect All Children From Genital Cutting, International NGO Urges

National Secular Society ✒ An international council of experts has called on the United Nations to protect all children from religious and cultural genital cutting.In a report supported by the National Secular Society, the International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy (INGOCGA) has called on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to work towards "full, equal protection of all minors"

Texas Heartbeat Law

Right Wing Watch ✒ Janet Porter Hopes to Apply the Strategy Behind Texas’ ‘Heartbeat Bill’ to LGBTQ Issues in Public Schools/Kyle MantylaWith the Supreme Court seemingly poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and anti-choice activists plotting to implement a nationwide “heartbeat bill” that will ban abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, the “mastermind” of the heartbeat bill strategy is running

A Morning Thought @ 1421

The Wretched State Of The Irish Media

Tommy McKearney ☭ The despicable treatment of Clare Daly and Mick Wallace by the Irish Times in its Easter Saturday edition is more than simply evidence of the wretched state of the Irish mainstream media: it is also a reflection of concerns gripping the 26-County establishment.The sanctimonious piece by Naomi O’Leary was titled, without any obvious irony, “Stars of state media” by a newspaper