Si, is brilliant Spanish bicyclist Carlos Sastre, who win France’s Tour de France last week in Paris, France, putting the seal (and also the lion) on a fine summer for Spanish virility, which have seen…
Monthly Archives For July 2008
Saturation Point: A Review of The Social Atom
Saturation Point: A Review of The Socal Atom John Green on Mark Buchanan’s The Social Atom. A book that follows the current trend of ‘new, updated, biodegradable, non-toxic economics, an economics that has learned its…
: : drb.ie – Review of Health, Wealth and Happiness in Tiger Ireland
: : drb.ie – Review of Health, Wealth and Happiness in Tiger Ireland Cormac Ó Gráda concludes a review of a socio-economic survey of Ireland during the 'Celtic Tiger' years with "it may well be…
July 30th Morning: The Recession Diaries
It was only a matter of time before the business sector opened up another front in the recession wars. Hamburger king Pat McDonagh of Supermac has accused the Government of ‘strangling entrepreneurship’ and ‘criminalising business’….
Man in powdered wig and lipstick may have been slightly bendy, claims Tatchell " Splintered Sunrise
Man in powdered wig and lipstick may have been slightly bendy, claims Tatchell ” Splintered Sunrise The powdered and perfumed King Billy, less than a manly kind of male hetrosexual? So suggests Tatchell, the scamp….
July 29th Morning: The Recession Diaries
The bloggers over at Dublin Opinion are forever uncovering gems. Their latest little dig, courtesy of Conor, brings us ‘Charley’s March of Time’- an animated promotional film produced by the British Labour Government to explain…
LRB · Stefan Collini: Upwards and Onwards
LRB · Stefan Collini: Upwards and Onwards A detailed review of the new authorized biography of Raymond Williams. The book only goes up to 1961, three years after the publishing of Culture & Society and…
History shows illegal drugs are not a recent problem – The Irish Times – Tue, Jul 29, 2008
History shows illegal drugs are not a recent problem – The Irish Times – Tue, Jul 29, 2008 Fintan O'Toole suggests that the "war on drugs" needs to take a chill pill. Demand for illegal…
Binoy Kampmark: Socializing Losses
Binoy Kampmark: Socializing Losses The dig out from the US House of Representative which saves Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac from bankruptcy shows how US capitalism will ensure that profits are privatized' while losses are…
Ancestry of Barack Obama
Ancestry of Barack Obama William Addams Reitwiesner has compiled an ancestry of Obama going back to 1677. There, somewhere between 1882 and 1887, is Joseph Kearney, a shoemaker from Moneygall, co. Offaly.
The lessons of Glasgow East | open Democracy News Analysis
The lessons of Glasgow East | open Democracy News Analysis "The unattractive face of British Labour, by now a bizarre mixture of battered managerialism and neo-liberalism, compounds the problems of its Scottish counterpart." Gerry Hassan…
July 28th Morning: The Recession Diaries
So, ‘curbing’ public spending growth is the only option. Thus spake Paul Tansey in last Friday’s Irish Times. Working from figures supplied by the Department of Finance, he attempts to show how public spending has…
July 27th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Ah, the Sabbath and one is put in mind of Iris Robinson’s insistence that Governments must pursue God’s law. Now I don’t pretend to know more than the next congregant but I do have a…
July 25th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
I have a friend with a strange sense of humour. His email says only ‘Enjoy the weekend’. But attached is a news statement from the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME). Some friend. ISME…
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