Media
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We can expect, as the polling for His Majesty’s Glorious Union carries on sinking to a level beyond which even a few Irish Times readers might notice that the word majority can no longer be comfortably applied, that Partitionists will develop an interest in alternative means of gauging the strength of the Eternal Union. If…
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A young man from Birmingham presents a podcast about Conspiracy and Racism in his city. There is a little too much about the young man included, for Macdara’s tastes; the present writer has less appetite for impulsive twenty-something Brummies than Serial’s American producers do. But Hamza Syed is certainly likeable, and on the right side;…
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With this, your correspondent introduces a new category: Ancient Grudge, whereby he complains about something from the past that has pissed him off enough that he has had to write about it to get it out of his system. Macdara has long been fascinated by the functioning of groups, and in particular the tendency of…
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The comedy of choice for the Partitionist elite is a niche publication known as the Irish Times. This outlet has courageously been describing ever smaller numbers as a majority when it comes to the issue of the Occupation. We should not expect it to be deterred by its own recent daring in describing the 50%…
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RTÉ reports that the English government wants to revive the imperial system of measurements—which, Macdara has noticed, certain educated English people, possibly from a clever unconscious desire to deny the imperial legacy upon which they have suckled, refer to as the empirical system, as ingenuously as they refer to the English rather than the Latin…