I turned on the radio this morning and was immediately reminded by radio 4 that it was the centenary of the start of WW1. Unwilling to hear the Establishment slant on the ‘commemorations’ (somewhere along the line it has sensibly been decreed that celebration is perhaps not the appropriate word) I switched to 5 Live,… Continue reading wars
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bad things continue to happen
I was pleased to hear the news that Gerry Adams has been released from police custody before the 20.00h deadline imposed on the police. Without taking the side of either party in the long history of trouble in Northern Ireland it is surely possible to be horrified by the prospect of a return to the… Continue reading bad things continue to happen