Pádraig Durnin 🇵🇸
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'scotto-hibernian and a long boy', recently completed PhD at QUB, histories of Irish radicalism + international solidarity, long-suffering DUFC fan🍊⚫, he/they
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Pleased to see this article I've written for
@IrishStudiesRev
on the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement published. Glad to make my contribution to this special issue and to what will be a wave of long-overdue work on the IAAM over the next year or two.
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'British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.' Eric Williams
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The most amusing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland.
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Gerry Adams opening a live TV interview with words "coola boola" while wearing a full Antrim GAA kit speaks to the vibe of this election.
#GE2020
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Having deemed Saturday's Dundee march in solidarity with Palestinians under genocidal Israeli bombardment 'illegal' under an obscure local by-law, at 8 o'clock this morning Police Scotland arrested Jim Barlow, a well-known local activist of almost 50 years' standing, at his home.
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There are left-wing positions that age badly and then there's this.
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Why are American Catholics the most Protestant thing on the internet?
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Dundee (population approx. 150,000) has more drug deaths per annum than the entire nation of Portugal (population approx. 10 million). Let that sink in.
Scotland has the highest rate of drugs deaths in Europe.
The only reason why we’re not pursuing decriminalisation, which took Portugal from the worst overdose rate in Europe to just 30 fatalities a year, is cos politicians are more worried about losing votes than saving lives.
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The street preacher who's been going up and down around Queen's this week just gave us the line, "this is Satanic Avenue, not Botanic Avenue", and you know what, you can't deny that's a zinger.
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Few life trajectories can surpass this one.
29/6/73 Zhang Tiesheng starts writing to appeal his exam results but nods off. He wakes up late for his next exam and has sneak in through a window.
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Understand
@paulmasonnews
has been cut out of the Stretford & Urmston Labour selection race before making the shortlisting stage
I'm told this was a decision by the local selection committee
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A Basque friend once told me about an American they came across camping above their village who'd taught himself *perfect* Basque, even using reasonably obscure Basque terms for things that most Basques use Castillian loan words for (he didn't have a word of Castillian Spanish).
The strangest story in literature right now might be that of Tettyo Saito, a Japanese man born 1992 who basically never leaves his suburb outside of Tokyo, taught himself Romanian on Facebook and is now a published author of Romanian language novels and poetry. Respect.
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Never underestimate the spontaneous combustibility of a historic building on a valuable development site.
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England has a fascinating, globally-unique political system where the functioning opposition to the government of the day is entirely composed of current and former professional footballers.
In response to Edwina Currie, who is un-fucking-believably heinous,＠GNev2 says the language used by the Tories is 'divisive and dangerous', and that 'To reduce universal credit payment at this time is brutal.'
Personally, I would like to see Gary Neville as our PM.
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The only impressive thing about the Irish
@Labour
Party is how it managed to beat all the other Labour Parties to that Twitter handle.
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Although Jim has now thankfully been released, the outrageous police bail conditions imposed prohibit him from setting foot in the city centre until a hearing in late November – a blatant attempt to stymie further protest.
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It strikes me how confusing the international response to the death of Bobby Sands must be to those who view "the Troubles" as essentially an outbreak of regressive "green vs orange" parochialism, which is perhaps why it tends to be omitted from their narratives altogether.
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Quite a story in the Sunday Mail today: a senior figure in a Scottish pro-Israel group looks like he's going to lose his job as a teacher after creating a fake Facebook profile claiming to be a Palestine solidarity activist and posting anti-semitic slurs.
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One of the very few surviving Irish Citizen Army uniforms in the world, and I'm told the only one on public display.
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Participants in the march on social media confirming that while spontaneous, the route taken was agreed with the police on duty at the time, and no action was taken or threatened against anyone involved as the march proceeded.
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Here's a photo I'd never seen before: Larkin, Connolly, "Big" Bill Haywood, as well as the Scottish-born Liverpudlian socialist Mary "Ma" Bamber, whom Sylvia Pankhurst called the "finest, fighting platform speaker in the country".
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The "individual Catholics are proxies for Vatican influence" trope was anti-Catholic bigotry when it was used against John F. Kennedy, when it was used by Ian Paisley against nationalists and republicans here, and is anti-Catholic bigotry in the British Labour Party in 2020.
I've just signed this open letter to the Labour leadership candidates. I don't want Labour's policy on reproductive rights dictated by the Vatican, thanks.
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Many if not most Irish parliamentarians in the 1940s were deeply conservative and closely associated with the Catholic Church, but only one of them stood up during the final days of the war in Europe and told the Dáil he hoped Hitler was still alive.
Charlie Flanagan: ‘My father was a controversial figure. He was deeply conservative, closely associated with the Catholic Church’
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Interesting that the Cuban and Nicaraguan Revolutions were both initially opposed by their official Soviet-aligned parties: the pre-1959 Cuban Communist Party thought Fidel a "bourgeois adventurist", Nicaraguan Communist Party used fairly similar language about the Sandinistas.
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A fascinating but retrospectively chastening map of the Celtic world from 1900. Gives a figure of 3.16 million speakers of Celtic languages, 1.26 million of them being monolingual.
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Recently discovered there's a guy near Magherafelt who lives in a full-scale replica of Graceland.
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Managed to find the record of Bloody Sunday perpetrator Cook's (Soldier G) death from the South African end, specifically that he was shot dead by an uMkhonto we Sizwe unit on the South African/Zimbabwean border in Feb. 1986 — a modicum of justice delivered a long way from Derry.
David Burke finally names Soldier G — dead in 1986 in South Africa — who killed unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday and who had "the sadistic edge" over his partner, Soldier F.
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In the way people talk about the Kennedy assassination or 9/11, for generations to come it'll be "where were you when you found out the Pink Peacock was putting shit through its competitors' letter boxes?".
"Whit's aw this shite? How dae ye no sell mince rolls?"
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2/3 of the tweets on the Albanian President's official Twitter account are about how much he loves Celtic.
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Irish amateur historian on lonely mission to save ‘bogeyman’ Cromwell from genocide charges
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Sacking a well-paid, well-trained staff with decades of experience and replacing them with underpaid and inadequately trained agency workers continues to have predictable consequences.
P&O ferry ‘adrift’ in Irish sea with up to 410 passengers aboard 🚨
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"Celtic Symphony discourse is a back", sighs Brian from the Wolfe Tones, as he sets up live notifications from the Irish iTunes chart before lighting a cigar with a fifty euro note.
'Ooh Ah, Up the Ra!' rings out at the RDS as the Leinster players do a lap of honour and the crowd empties. Not sure the PA has been following the news cycle
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The Irish Green Party is so committed to averting a climate catastrophe that the last Government it was part of sent in the military to defend a gas pipeline against predominantly local environmental protesters.
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Choose life. Choose surviving the Edinburgh slums. Choose Marxism, and a move to Dublin. Choose to form the Irish Citizen Army and defend workers and strikers with arms. Choose Easter 1916 and to lead a brigade in the GPO. They strapped him to a chair to kill him.
#ChooseConnolly
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Strange how Israel was unable to intercept a single Palestinian communication about an attack planned months in advance involving thousands of fighters and yet has been able to rustle this up almost immediately.
Whoa: Israeli media is reporting that the IDF has a recording of a conversation between Islamic Jihad terrorists confirming that they launched the rocket that hit the Gaza hospital.
It will reportedly be released shortly.
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The IRA campaign ended over two decades ago. Fine Gael first went into Government in its modern incarnation in 1948 with a man who had been Chief of Staff of the (already illegal) IRA less than a decade before, and had spent most of the intervening period defending IRA prisoners.
Every time Sinn Féin endorse the narrative of violence, they make it more difficult to achieve a united Ireland
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Is it even a Belfast riot if there isn't a picture of a young guy with his shirt off standing on top of a police Land Rover?
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Incredible that some journo desperate for a new angle on Enoch Burke has rung up the Westboro Baptist Church for comment, and they've essentially gone "don't associate us with him, we don't want the bad publicity".
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'Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me.' 🇨🇺✊
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Met an old guy with no bank account. When I asked him why he didn't have one he said "I just never got into that shit"
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This blew up a wee bit! If you're wanting to something practical, download yourself the new
@ScotsGaelicDuo
and get learning, and sign this petition from
@MisneachdAlba
urging the Scottish Government to respond properly to the crisis facing Gaelic.
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Imagine believing this.
The American and British flags are the only flags in the world that are relatively neutral cultural icons. I can't think of any others? France maybe?
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The helicopter had a history its own. It was originally a gift from De Gaulle to the wife of Nguyen Van Thieu, the Western-sponsored dictator of S. Vietnam, but had been sold on to an Irish company from where a "Mr Leonard" (an IRA member hamming up an American accent) hired it.
47 years ago today, 3 IRA POWs Seamus Twomey, JB O’Hagan and Kevin Mallon escaped from Mountjoy Gaol by Helicopter.
“It’s up like a bird...” 🇮🇪🚁
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I'm pretty sure Protestants have Good Friday too you know.
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Heritage isn't a type of personal identity—there are going to be things that are part of your heritage that you might not want to be there or find unpalatable. Ultimately, there's a historical association between Ulster Protestants and the Irish language whether you like or not.
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Re. a tweet circulating from a well-known English fascist this morning.
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There's definitely a particular "I'm doing something important today so I'd better wear my kilt" mentality you come across in some Scottish guys, and I feel Stuart Christie took it to the next level.
#OtD
11 Aug 1964 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain with explosives to assassinate dictator General Franco. He was wearing a kilt, which confused the Spanish press, who described him as "a Scottish transvestite".
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In a statement,
@HillaryClinton
said it was a "great privilege" to take up the five-year role:
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Leo Varadkar being chased down the street by press demanding he respond to a statement from the Wolfe Tones is exactly what I needed.
'Black and Tans' controversy: Taoiseach refuses to comment on RIC event and Wolfe Tones chart-topper
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The "Billy Boys" is a song about a pre-WWII Brigton gang leader who was a member of the British Union of Fascists and tried to form a Scottish branch of the Ku Klux Klan. The primary current of the Scottish far-right subsists in Loyalism.
Does my tits in reading stuff from pro Indy tweeters who think that Far right Loyalist thugs only appeared in Scotland either a) during the Indy Ref or b) after the repeal of the odious OBFA. Who do they think Billy Fullarton was? Pastor Jack Glass?
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Solidarity with the family of John Pat Cunningham, the mentally-impaired man Dennis Hutchings shot in the back. They deserved their justice almost fifty years ago.
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Scottish cites in order of soundness:
1. Dundee
2. Glasgow
3. Perth
4. Inverness
5. Stirling
6. Edinburgh (only because of Leith)
7. Brechin's a city right?
8. Elgin too.
9. Anywhere else where people outnumber sheep.
10. Aberdeen
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"there might be as many as 200 persons unlawfully detained"
This isn't just about Gerry A, this is about the British Govt. systematically detaining people illegally, knowing about it, and it taking the 30-year-rule and a series of expensive court cases for anything to happen.
Gerry Adams illegally held during Troubles, supreme court rules
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The idea that the "pro-Putin left" is some sort of substantial current beyond a few internet oddballs is a fever dream of the sort of people who would've spent WWI telling you that James Connolly, John MacLean, Sylvia Pankhurst et al. were in the pay of the Kaiser.
have seen infinitely more people denouncing an imaginary pro-putin left than i've seen leftists supporting putin
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Appalling use of draconian powers under Thatcher's Public Order Act to ban Cairde na hÉireann's Spanish Civil War commemoration today. Police Scotland are openly using the state-enforced mourning period to suppress political dissent.
Section 12 of Public Order Act invoked in relation to planned public procession in Glasgow.
Chief Superintendent Mark Sutherland, Divisional Commander for Greater Glasgow Division, has issued a statement. Read it here:
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Only catching up on some of the Twitter discourse going on here but the Palestinian BDS National Committee - the only definitive arbiters of what is and what isn't a
#BDS
target - haven't issued any statements calling for a boycott of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
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Me: these online DNA tests are unreliable, are used to propagate racial essentialism, obscure complex vectors of ethnic and cultural identity, not to mention every US Govt. agency you can think of has access to them
Also me: 0% English, you see that, 0% English. Sassenach-free.
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Really hurting hearing the news of Dawn Foster's passing. She's been one of my favourite people on here for a long, long time, we've corresponded a fair bit and was just thinking to myself I'd have to give her a shout if I ever found myself in London. A horrendous loss.
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Too close to South Down for comfort.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro skipping climate summit in Glasgow
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"We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relents the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes."
Britain's new king will officially be known as King Charles III, Clarence House has confirmed. Follow live updates:
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In September Michelle O'Neill took the line that Sinn Féin would offer condolences on the Queen's death, but would not take part in ceremonies re. the accession of the new monarch as these were "intended for those whose political allegiance is to the British Crown".
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This German Communist poster calling for a British withdrawal from Ireland is the sort of political ephemera I live for.
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And she explicitly disowned her support for divestment from South Africa as a student anti-apartheid activist when she was Principal at the University of St Andrews.
Louise Richardson, who
@PresidentIRL
criticized was chair of Anti-Apartheid Society in TCD and friend of Kadar Asmal, who became a minister in Mandela’s gov of Sth Africa.
She joined Dunnes strikers on a trip to Johannesburg at height of apartheid
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The end of an eighty-year political dynasty which began with his father being elected as essentially a single-issue anti-Semite.
BREAKING:
@LaoisToday
are reporting that Charlie Flanagan, Fine Gael TD for Laois / Laois-Offaly since 1987, has announced that he will not seek re-election at the next general election at a constituency meeting in Clonaslee.
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The word "change" (tʃeɪndʒ) was invented in Belfast in 1988, during an all-night meeting of the IRA Army Council. It has been the universal watchword of the Provos and their fellow-travellers ever since.
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@olcan_shaw
@JackONeil90
"Now get that Toilet Duck down you son, show them that we're better together."
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Ulster Scots is a dialect of Scots, and Scots is a language with a rich and distinct literary tradition at least seven centuries old. Insofar as the consensus in the field of Linguistics is concerned, denying that is no more credible than refusal to acknowledge climate change.
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Whatever your position on the UCU's strategy in 2023 it's completely inappropriate for the General Secretary to use the union's official social media outlets to present an attack on a decision taken by the union's own NEC.
WE NEED EVERY SINGLE UCU MEMBER TO RT AND WATCH THIS.
In 2023 we will need more strike action to deliver the change our sector needs.
We want your views on what that should look like. It’s your union. Help to shape it.
#ucuRISING
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As my name-change suggests I pasded my viva with three months' corrections earlier! Thanks to my supervisors
@KConnellWriter
and Paul Corthorn, and the panel
@kevinkosullivan
and
@emorier
. Getting told Dr Durnin has a ring to it.
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Solidarity with Sally Rooney against the usual disingenuous bad faith actors who'll hurl anything at anyone to preserve the legitimacy of a colonial project born out of genocide and sustained by the permanent exclusion of the Palestinians it expelled and their descendants.
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Saw this photo circulating online described as a photo of Éamon de Valera's visit to the Isle of Barra in 1947. I'm not sure of its provenance, but the visit certainly happened.
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The co-founders of John Hume's party were involved in efforts to procure guns for Northern nationalist self defence in 1969 and the man who was leader of Micheál's party when he was first elected to the Dáil attempted to supply them.
Thankfully John Hume and the large majority of nationalists kept working for the alternative, which always existed.
SF revisionist history directly stands in the way of reconciliation and building bridges.
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Just found out what Hurlford in Ayrshire is called in Gaelic and I'm shook.
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Punting the idea that Ireland can "appropriate" Palestine solidarity is thoroughly devoid of any historio-political context and more about this website having melted your brains.
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Far more interested in the sort of thing seen today in Glasgow being challenged at an institutional level than a couple of the Union Bears ending up with a suspended sentence for breach about a year and a half down the line.
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If you're earning the cumulative rent from 32 flats and haven't put away anything to tide you over a couple of difficult months, well it's really shite to be you, isn't it?
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At least beyond the loyalist fraternity, this is just unambiguously the case and anyone who would claim otherwise is kidding themselves.
Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams says there would have been ‘very few tears’ shed in “working class Scotland” if the IRA had killed Margaret Thatcher
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The cynic in me says its absolutely in the British state's interests for Dennis Hutchings to drop dead here: scotches any potential for a guilty verdict, plays into the narrative of sick and elderly veterans being "victimised", and leaves the Cunningham family with nothing.
Dennis was taken to hospital last week; he has now subsequently also contracted COVID. His trial has been suspended for three weeks.
A grotesque experience for him only worsens. MoD has an enduring duty of care to him that they must honour, even more-so now.
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If you didn't get a rush of adrenalin on seeing that statue coming down in Bristol I don't know you.
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Our challenge by the end of the day is get one gammon on here sincerely believing that the ballots that put Biden ahead in Georgia were filled out by an army of Sinn Féin activists in a back-room of the Felons and flown into Atlanta.
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Alistair McConnachie (the Holocaust denier who pickets independence marches in a manky Union Jack shirt) won over two thousand votes running under the "Independent Green Voice" label, which seems to be what's tipped that final Glasgow seat to a Tory.
Patrick Harvie says Greens short by 'just a few hundred votes short' of second Glasgow seat
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I love the idea of an entire town just going on an outing together.
Forfar town outing. (c.1900s) Pic: Angus Libraries.
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My Gran used go on to my Grandad about how much she liked Van Gogh, and so my Grandad (who had no artistic training) decided to paint her one.
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The image of prisoners in Chilean jails being given hope after overhearing a crackling report on military radio about the junta's air force being grounded because of what these men had done in solidarity with them remains unsurpassable. Robert Somerville, presente! Nae Pasaran!
Here's to the wonderful Robert Somerville, who sadly has moved on, aged 85. Also known as Bobby, Papa or Mr Netherdale (after the youth club of the same name he founded in Motherwell), he was a beloved great-grandfather, a loving husband to Jean and a legendary shop steward.
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