Oliver Tickell: On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction | Comment is free | The Guardian
Reacting to the claim that we must learn to adapt to a 4% rise in global warming, Oliver Tickell flogs his Kyoto2 model: scrap national allocations of carbon credits and instead place a global cap [...]

The Encyclopedia Of Decency: The Surge
And so it came to pass that the SURGE did WORK, and there was great rejoicing and loud were the Hosannas and the hearts of men were gladdened, and there was much mounting of the Horse that is High by the Gerasites and the Hitchenites and so on.

If, like me, you have read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology of Perception, and Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and Dissemination from cover to cover, and all just out of curiosity, then I think it’s fair to say that 1: You’re a div, 2: You’re a div [...]

One of my wonderful, pious, intrepid apparition spotters in America alert me to the news that Our Lady was recently making an appearance in Salinas, California, at the Old Town Bar & Grill restaurant. Our Lady was not a customer, however. No. She was spotted by a plumber in a floor drain! What could she [...]

The rain conjures up many things for people: depression, wet clothes and dreams of a sunny Mediterranean village with cheap wine and grilled prawns.  I share in that but there are a few more inter-related things I’d like to raise:  wild-eyed environmentalists, greedy public sector workers and falling profits for insurance companies.
I live in a [...]

What a dog’s dinner. Education Minister, Batt O’Keefe, flew his ‘bring back tuition fees’ kite. It was immediately shot down by the Greens, the PDs and, even, Minister Hanafin. Then the PDs were shot down by Minister Mary Harney who thinks its a good idea to, at least, debate tuition fees. Is [...]

It must be great to be a spokesperson for employers. You can just plonk yourself in front of a microphone and say anything that comes into your head, no matter how outrageous or unsubstantiated. On Thursday’s Morning Ireland Mark Fielding of ISME was being interviewed together with UNITE’s Jerry Shanan. Mr. Fielding [...]

As a result of a much needed break in the sunny West of Ireland (unlike the east of the country it was actually quite sunny), there has been nothing at all on Irish Left Review for the last week. Apologies to regular readers for a lack of notification on this but I’m pleased to inform [...]

Did anyone catch the curious symmetry? On the day that unemployment, once again, shot up, AIB announced their half-yearly profits. Two different worlds on this small island.
Not that there weren’t attempts to show that these different worlds are experiencing the same thing. The Irish Times headlines: AIB Profits Fall. And [...]