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Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Leveson Inquiry…Witnesses Week 4 (Wednesday)
Tom Crone is former News International Legal Manager. The evidence was long without actually producing much. Crone seemed to stonewall a lot, based on privileged advice he had given. He never himself believed the “rogue reporter” line and felt that … Continue reading
The Public Gallery At Stormont
The first time I went into the Public Gallery was around March 1969. It was a school trip of sorts. I bunked off/played truant/mitched/went on the hike/played hookey aged 16 with a fellow member of the A Level “Economics & … Continue reading
Abraham Lincoln…Saint or Sinner (BBC Documentary)
Abraham Lincoln epitomises what most Americans believe the nation should be. For black Americans he is the Great Emancipator. Assassinated on Good Friday in a Christian country. He epitomises the American dream…. from the Kentucky backwoods to the White House. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American History, Civil War, Confederacy, Hstory, Racism, Slavery, USA
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The Leveson Inquiry…Witnesses Week 4 (Tuesday)
Monday was a day for News Of The World journalists. Tuesday was a day for the lawyers. None really looked comfortable in the witness box. Lawrence Abramson of Harbottle & Lewis was asked by News International (Murdoch “empire”) to look … Continue reading
The Leveson Inquiry…Witnesses Week 4 (Monday)
The News Of The World……not quite in the dock. But in the witness box. But to an extent, the biggest story was outside the courtroom with news that perhaps…..just perhaps……that the messages deleted from Milly Dowler’s phone may have been … Continue reading
The Leveson Inquiry…Witnesses Week 3 (Friday)
Richard Thomas is the former Information Commissioner which oversaw Data Protection and looked at breaches. On the disagreement in evidence between two former employees, Alec Owens and Francis Aldhouse, Thomas suggests there was ill feeling between them. He denies thinking … Continue reading
The Leveson Inquiry…Witnesses Week 3 (Thursday)
Essentially this was a day given over to the evidence of academics who teach journalism and Media courses. Seven in all taken in two groups for “hot tubbing” in the witness box…..a phrase with which “Lord” Leveson does not seem … Continue reading
Fionnuala Britton…European Cross Country Champion
In Ireland, we need all the good news we can possibly get. Congratulations to Fionnuala Britton who won the Gold Medal at the European Cross Country Championships in Slovenia today. Put that in your pipe and smoke it…. Angela Merkel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Athletics, Cross Country Championship, Europe, Fionnuala Britton, Ireland, sport
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The British Conservative Party…Aidan Burley MP
The Conservative Party is the most traditional of British Parties. It never ceases to disappoint. Every decade or so, a Tory MP is forced to issue a grovelling apology for attending a party/social event where people dress up as nazis … Continue reading
Catholic Education In Norn Iron
Discussing the 1960s Civil Rights movement in “Northern Ireland” with American Civil Rights activists, it is never long before the question of Education arises. Put simply, Education was a key “black” demand in Alabama and Mississippi in the early 1960s … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Catholic Education, Catholicism, Faith Schools, France, Guy Fawkes, Islam, Norn Iron, USA
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Keeping An Eye On the Czar of Russia 