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nwhyte Jun 30, 2010 01:31

Political party to register "within weeks"
Dissidents from the Irish Greens to set up their own group. Their disgruntlement with their former party is entirely comprehensible, but unfortunately their command of Irish rather poor; you can have "Fís Nua" or "An Fhís Nua" but not, as they seem to think, "An Fís Nua".
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nwhyte May 25, 2010 01:04

Denouement for the MMR scare: Dr Aust’s Spleen

[Wakefield’s work] was published. People critiqued it. They looked carefully at the findings in the paper to see if they stood up. Other researchers tried to look for the relationship he suggested between autism and MMR vaccination in other kinds of studies.... And the answer? None of ( Read more... )

nwhyte May 07, 2010 01:06

Beware the Warnings of al Qaeda - International - The Atlantic

Morocco's government may be invested in using the threat of terrorism for political and economic gain... The challenge for us in the West is to be able to live with the threat of organized terrorism without assuming its involvement in any given act of anti-state ( Read more... )

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nwhyte Apr 17, 2010 01:05

Shaw on Ulysses
via Bookslut, George Bernard Shaw's take on Joyce: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman, and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for such a book, you little know my countrymen."
(tags: ireland literature)

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nwhyte Apr 14, 2010 01:03

elmyra: Why Content Is a Public Good

Thoughtful economic analysis of it all

(tags: copyright)

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nwhyte Feb 25, 2010 00:05

EU assembly report questions Morocco fishing deal

Lawyers urged the EU on Tuesday to review its 2007 fishing accord with Morocco, saying it may be illegal to allow European fishermen to work off disputed Western Sahara.

(tags: westernsahara)

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nwhyte Feb 22, 2010 00:03

reading_gibbon: Chapter XVIII: Constantine and his successors
This is a very good narrative chapter. Most of the first half is about the reign of Constantine and the rather bloodthirsty way he dealt with his own family; the second half then tracks the rise to absolute power of his son Constantius, overcoming his own relatives and the ( Read more... )

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nwhyte Feb 16, 2010 00:04

A Mixed Constitution

provocative thoughts on constitutional reform

(tags: ukpolitics)