for lefties too stubborn to quit
Okay, I didn’t help last week by posting up a link to a downbeat story – and indeed I heard on a US podcast how at the moment it’s more a matter of picking which negative story to address, but there were a number of positive stories nonetheless. It’s the last week of the year – kind of sort of, so let’s give it everything we’ve got!
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Not the sport of choice on this site, I know, but Connacht’s rugby win over Wasps with a last second kick, last Weekend, was sport at its most thrilling and inspiring. The BBC News exposure of almost slave labour practices inside JJB Sports was not ‘good news’ in terms of workers’ pay & conditions, but the fact that TV news was prepared to undertake such an investigation, successfully, was encouraging.
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I’ll take a look at that if some kind soul has posted it on screwtoob.
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Sorry, it’s Channel 4 News – headlining tonight (Thurs) 7 o’clock bulletin.
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Are the Irish media finally developing a social conscience? The current focus on the homelessness crisis, combined with today’s IT article on food poverty, can only direct a cross-party effort towards greater social equality.
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agree with paul – the home sweet home Appollo mission is a great sign of hope
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There’s a grand stretch in the evenings!
Countrypersons joke perhaps.
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<pedantry>
There’s been a stretch in the evenings since 16 December. The mornings have continued to shrink, though, as the sunrise (in Dublin) continues to be later until tomorrow (29 December).
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ireland/dublin
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You can’t get round me with your fancy-schmancy Dublin-sciencey factoids. That’s sooooo 2016.
The plain people of real Ireland ™ experience crepuscular elongation on the 22nd of December and not a day before!
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Haven’t seen much hiphop here but this has to count as a sign of hope: Run the Jewels release their third and darkest reflecton on American society as a Christmas surprise. Its for free at:
https://runthejewels.com/
Not only have they built a post-free download career delivering content without restrictions, Killer Mike has leveraged the profile into some significant political interventions, witness his Bernie Sanders barber shop talks as well as his Ferguson commentary.
Best of all, the album is an absolutely banging call to arms.
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