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Sinn Fein’s Slam €200 Electricity Credit While Proposing £200 Credit In North

Matt Treacy ✒ When there was some back and forth in the Dáil recently with regards to the €200 electricity credit that was announced by the government in order to alleviate the rising cost of living expenses, the reaction from the opposition was predictable.Not enough, something something; billionaires something something; inequality and so on. It’s what opposition politicians do. Often with a

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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 CuriousTen games from greatness to torture: How Houllier’s Liverpool lost the plotUUP leader says Jeffrey Donaldson meeting was to discuss DUP leader switching

The Second Death Of The British Labour Party!

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ The Labour Representation Committee was formed by, among
others, James Keir Hardie in 1900. Between this year and 1906 the group worked with the trade unions and the Independent Labour Party to form, in that year, what we know today as the Labour Party. It has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists, Fabians and trade unionists and was (and

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Holed Below The Waterline

Tommy McKearney ☭ There it goes, down again. Holed below the waterline, the leaking vessel Stormont is floundering once more. Yet, in spite of its official role as an integral part of overall United Kingdom governance, the British establishment cares little about the political apparatus in Belfast.Underlining this reality was the spectacle of Ian Paisley Junior ruefully telling an almost empty

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Hundred And Fifty

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 CuriousA No-Fly Zone in Ukraine Would Start World War III. It’s the Worst Idea PossibleBritain Is Turning its Back on Ukrainian RefugeesHow war became a

Russians Revolt Against Putin’s War

People And Nature ☭ The stream of protest against Russia’s war on Ukraine has turned into a river.Demonstrations in every major Russian city have been broken up by the police, with more than 4000 arrests, but people have returned to the streets again and again. There were anti-war demonstrations in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, yesterday, the first street actions since the 2020

IRA Volunteers Colm Keenan & Eugene McGillan To Be Commemorated in Derry

An Independent commemoration will take place in Derry on Monday-14-March-2022 to observe the 50th anniversary of the deaths of two IRA volunteers, Colm Keenan & Eugene McGillan.Both men were killed following a gun battle between the IRA and a British patrol, which occurred on the last day of the Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday. It was subsequently claimed at the Saville Inquiry,

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Ukraine ✑ The Bear Trap

Fra Hughes ✒ The threat of Ukraine reoccupying the Donbas autonomous regions and the possible massacre of the Russian-speaking Russian citizens of those two breakaway republics forced Putin's hand.First Published InAl Mayadeen English.Well well well, how did we ever end up in this situation? Another war in Europe threatens to engulf the wider region.The Russians claim to be engaged in a limited