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Category Archives: Politics and related subjects
Email sent to Rush Limbaugh regarding his comments on Sandra Fluke
Mr Limbaugh, There are depths to which no one with access to the public broadcasting should ever sink. Your comments on Sandra Fluke surpass what even in these times might be tolerated. What sort of example do you set with … Continue reading
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Some reflections on the politics of poverty and the poverty of politics.
Poverty, Charity and Obeisance I heard the word Rickets used on the Today programme this morning. Fifty years ago when I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s Rickets were, like unemployment, something that belonged to the past…admittedly it … Continue reading
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Ninth Day of Christmas
Feast of St Basil Great and St Gregory of Nazianzen St Basil was highly thought of both in his time and later by John Henry Cardinal Newman amongst others….he was ranked with Athansius as a theologian and his panegyric his … Continue reading
Camelot Revisted
A footnote upon on Mrs Kennedy and the making of the myth of Camelot This week saw the release of the tapes made by Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy for the historian Arthur M Schlesinger in the aftermath of the assassination of … Continue reading
Taking the high road and the low road……
I’ve been back from my close encounter with stand-up comedy in Edinburgh for a week. And yet I feel eerily in the same unreal comic reality…… Take this furore for example over Dr David Starkey’s appearance on Newsnight. The first thing … Continue reading
Rioting and riotous times or how people in glass houses ended up being stoned.
Civil disorder isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s older than recorded history and its presence in all societies may be taken as read long before the riot act was written. The brutality of the mob instinctively disturbs and perplexes. The vast … Continue reading
A Question for James and Rupert Murdoch: What doth it profit a man to gain the News of the World and to lose his own soul?
Hello and welcome….. Born In Cashel,Tipperary, I’m a Tudor historian, former fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and a writer. Currently I write novels, plays and old fashioned poetry…. Most of us like to think we are unusual … Continue reading
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