Cover of The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor. The is set during WWII when the Nazis occupied the city. The strapline reads “In a city under siege, no one can be trusted.”
It’s World Book Day and what better way to mark it than by getting stuck in to the Irish Book of the Year 2025. #WorldBookDay
For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.
Cuts in foreign aid in the UK and USA mean that even small amounts of donor funding are increasingly important to organisations like Concern Worldwide.
Bulama Bukarti is a brilliant analyst.
He has a much larger following than I ever realised on all socials. Compare him to some of the rubbish that infests lots of other media programs up and down the UK.
@lbc.co.uk
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New Brexit benefits from tomorrow …
Shopping basket holder in Lidl witb the words “please put me in my place” above it.
You’re a stupid, worthless shopping basket holder and you’ll never amount to anything.
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin. Khomeini died in 1989. Robert Jenrick wanted to be Tory leader, but doesn't appear very well informed about current affairs.
Here’s a recording of a public conversation that I did recently with Mary Robinson as the University of Galway School of Law Annual Distinguished Lecture 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeqv...
Two-light stained glass window by Harry Clarke, The Baptism of Christ, 1924. Rich colours, red,blue, purple, with ornate painted detail.
One of six stunning two-light windows by Harry Clarke, 1924. In the chapel at An Diseart cultural centre in Dingle, where I saw a fascinating interview with @ronanhession.bsky.social .
As usual, photo of stained glass doesn’t do it justice.
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
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