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Lord Sumption KC warns that democracy is under threat as power moves from Parliament to the courts, driven by lockdowns, a safety-first mindset and the legal entrenchment of DEI.
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offsite link Tour Guides Told Not to Say ?Able-Bodied? As It ?Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes? Sun Feb 09, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Tourism quango VisitBritain is telling its staff to ditch the term 'able-bodied' because it's deemed "harmful" and use "non-disabled" instead.
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offsite link Charity Boss Cancelled for ?Islamophobia? Wins Legal Battle in Victory for Free Speech Sun Feb 09, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A Jewish charity boss who was cancelled for "Islamophobic" posts has just won a major court battle, getting his trustee ban overturned in a huge win for free speech and a major slap-down for the Charity Commission.
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offsite link Will BBC Media Action, Auntie?s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Ha... Sun Feb 09, 2025 13:00 | Tony Edwards
One of the woke boondoggles USAID was funding was BBC Media Action, a pro-censorship lobby group. Now that Elon Musk has turned off the tap, will it go bust? asks ex-BBC science producer Tony Edwards.
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Labour minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked and suspended after leaked WhatsApp messages exposed racist, sexist and antisemitic slurs ? including a 'joke' about a constituent being mown down by a truck.
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national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 16:39 by Niall O Brolchain   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 05, 2003 - 12:26)
The Galway Environmental Alliance (GEA) has fought long and hard to save the 90 mature trees which are still under threat in Eyre Square in Galway City centre. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 16:31 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - monday june 02, 2003 - 23:51)   image 1 image
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 15:01 by path in residence   text 2 comments (last - friday may 30, 2003 - 16:01)
Some links for your reading pleasure. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 14:13 by path in residence   text 5 comments (last - friday may 30, 2003 - 16:14)
Tonight in Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 14:12 by Justin Moran   text 7 comments (last - saturday may 31, 2003 - 14:36)
It's a long piece but basically a transcript of a debate between Martin Cullen and TDs from FG, Labour, SF and the Greens over incineration. Couple of interesting comments from Cullen in it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 14:07 by ???   text 2 comments (last - saturday may 31, 2003 - 18:50)
Social Partnership used as tool to silence dissent on social and economic matters. In an angry contribution to the debate on the National Economic and Social Development Office Bill in the Dáil Wednesday evening , Sinn Féin spokesperson on Employment, Arthur Morgan T.D. tackled the Government over the failure of social partnership to deliver any real improvements to the lives of the disadvantaged. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 12:22 by CFE   text 8 comments (last - friday february 13, 2004 - 16:54)
Below is a copy of the press release issued by CFE in reaction to the government decision to backdown on their plans to reintroduce fees. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 11:44 by Jim Monaghan   text 6 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2003 - 20:12)
Supporters of all the pro coalition Leftwing parties should pass resolutions demanding that their leaderships not enter into talks with Fine Gael over its policy of dropping neutrality ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 30, 2003 - 09:41 by John Doe   text 12 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2003 - 20:21)
Donald Rumsfelds statement that there might have been no weapons of mass destruction, THE excuse for the assault and invasion, was condemned by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party member of the Dail. 10 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 19:29 by Oisin Kelly   text 4 comments (last - friday may 30, 2003 - 10:35)
The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, on Tuesday, 27th May 2003, suspended four student activists of the university for one session for leading mass protests against increments in school fees. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 19:05 by Peace Fairy   text 16 comments (last - tuesday june 03, 2003 - 14:18)
Personal observations and news from the VAAAG village near Evian ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 16:22 by Ali H.   text 13 comments (last - monday june 02, 2003 - 10:14)
Israeli critics of the Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen have deluged newswire and media outlets with accusations that he denied the holocaust. Today the PM confronted them head-on in a newspaper interview with Ha'aretz. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 16:14 by flanagan   text 16 comments (last - friday may 30, 2003 - 15:06)
Refuse charges will increase to at least €700 per household ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 16:07 by Conall O'Caoimh   image 1 image
Following lobbying by constituents TDs agreed to hold a Dáil debate on the upcoming World Trade Organisation talks. Over 60 TDs took part in the Trade Justice lobby on May 14th. Next is to watch out for the Dáil debate in mid-June and to attend the Public Gallery in the Dáil. Several hundred people across Ireland 'Weighed In for Trade Justice' by contacting their TDs in the run up to the lobby day. TDs took part, meeting constituents inside the Dáil and receiving briefings on the WTO talks from campaigners. In response to the lobby, the Dáil decided to hold a debate which should occur mid-June. Another success of the lobby, was that the government is commiting to publish during the Irish EU Presidency the agendas of the secret EU Trade committee (known as the '133 Committee'). Keep a look-out for the date of the Dail debate and come along to ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 15:12 by pat c
James Plunkett, author, playwright, trade unionist, socialist, died yesterday aged 83. His play The Risen People will be staged on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th June St Josephs School, Fairview at 8pm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 14:03 by reclaim the beats   text 14 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2003 - 19:11)
RTS open meeting TONIGHT in The Ha'Penny Bridge Inn ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 12:09 by Sean Smyth   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2003 - 23:44)
Once again a Belfast City Bus driver has been assaulted. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 11:57 by ollie (in tabloid form)   text 6 comments (last - friday may 30, 2003 - 13:58)
On May 2, dining room workers at the United Nations staged a strike, leaving the food and drink unattended. According to an early-May issue of Time magazine, this led to "Baghdad style (looting) chaos," in which UN staff and delegates robbed the restaurants bare of food, liquor and silverware,including alcoholic beverages stolen by "some well-known diplomats." ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 10:54 by Sean   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2003 - 23:41)   image 1 image
A meeting in Clonakilty, Co. Cork last night pledged support and solidarity to those who have been arrested and charged in relation to non-violent direct action protests at Shannon Airport in opposition to Ireland's involvement in the war on Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 29, 2003 - 10:53 by Justin Moran   text 16 comments (last - friday may 30, 2003 - 13:52)
A crowd of about 150 people gathered outside Leinster House last night as part of the Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax. ... read full story / add a comment
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