The cost of outrage
Mock outrage over Ivor Callely’s expense claims is a distraction from real politics, says JASON WALSH
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Poem: Domhnach na Fola – Eanair 1972
Le DÓNAL Ó LIATHÁIN
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Credibility versus democratic accountability
STEPHEN RAINEY suggests shrugging-off problems and getting on with living
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Boycott Israeli gays?
You know that anti-Israeli protests have reached their nadir when gay pride becomes involved, says JASON WALSH
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Rome: the decline and fall of the eastern empire
CHRIS GRAY concludes his series on the Roman empire by analysing the reasons for its survival in the east
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Market crap
Apple’s ‘value’ exceeding that of Microsoft is an illusion, says JASON WALSH
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‘They get their cash and they deserve it—so why can’t I have my Plato?’
Business jargon disguises the fact that moxy is what counts in capitalism. Fine, but can we cut the instrumentalist agenda, asks STEPHEN RAINEY
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Monopoly money cuts and the toy-town economy
70 per cent of the North’s economy is state subsidised – it’s time to stop playing with the toy economy, says STEPHEN RAINEY
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Irish needed in Blackrock Park
Blackrock Park’s commitment to Irish is second to all
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Oxfams to the left of me, Oxfams to the right. Business? Missing in action
The North is about to pay a very high price for its isolation from both the British and Irish polities
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Anglo-Keynesian government
Slashing government spending doesn’t sound like Keynesian economics but it is when it’s done to prop-up failing businesses, says JASON WALSH
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Poem: Domhnach na Fola – Eanair 1972
Le DÓNAL Ó LIATHÁIN
Credibility versus democratic accountability
STEPHEN RAINEY suggests shrugging-off problems and getting on with living
Boycott Israeli gays?
You know that anti-Israeli protests have reached their nadir when gay pride becomes involved, says JASON WALSH
Rome: the decline and fall of the eastern empire
CHRIS GRAY concludes his series on the Roman empire by analysing the reasons for its survival in the east
A letter from the editor
Market crap
Apple’s ‘value’ exceeding that of Microsoft is an illusion, says JASON WALSH
‘They get their cash and they deserve it—so why can’t I have my Plato?’
Business jargon disguises the fact that moxy is what counts in capitalism. Fine, but can we cut the instrumentalist agenda, asks STEPHEN RAINEY
Monopoly money cuts and the toy-town economy
70 per cent of the North’s economy is state subsidised – it’s time to stop playing with the toy economy, says STEPHEN RAINEY
Irish needed in Blackrock Park
Blackrock Park’s commitment to Irish is second to all
Oxfams to the left of me, Oxfams to the right. Business? Missing in action
The North is about to pay a very high price for its isolation from both the British and Irish polities
Anglo-Keynesian government
Slashing government spending doesn’t sound like Keynesian economics but it is when it’s done to prop-up failing businesses, says JASON WALSH
The cost of outrage
Mock outrage over Ivor Callely’s expense claims is a distraction from real politics, says JASON WALSH
This is no ‘bailout’ of Greece
Greece will suffer due to the EU intervention, it’s French and German banks that are getting bailed-out, says JASON WALSH
A union of what, precisely?
In the wake of the British general election OWEN POLLEY challenges the unionist parties to come to terms with what unionism actually stands for
Austerity: ask not what Ireland can do for you, ask what it will do to you
With public spending ‘out of control’ the government wants to avoid being seen as ’the next Greece’ by imposing round after round of tax hikes, public sector pay restraint and swingeing cuts to public service provision—but has it worked, asks JASON WALSH
The law of ignorance
In the first of a series of articles on morality and law, STEPHEN RAINEY gives his answer to forth’s question: Is ignorance of the law an excuse?
England? No
PATRICK WEST says Irish football fans shouldn’t be cheering on England come the World Cup—and it has nothing to do with Anglo-Irish relations
Let’s kill ‘heritage Irish’
Get Irish off life support and into real life, says JASON WALSH
They won’t go away, we know
CONNAL PARR looks at the spectre of dissident republicanism
‘Freedom is only a flag’
‘Sinn Fein the Workers’ party’, Ireland’s ‘official’ republicans twisted in the wind, says JAMES HEARTFIELD reviewing the Lost Revolution
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A letter from the editor
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Market crap
Apple’s ‘value’ exceeding that of Microsoft is an illusion, says JASON WALSH
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Monopoly money cuts and the toy-town economy
70 per cent of the North’s economy is state subsidised – it’s time to stop playing with the toy economy, says STEPHEN RAINEY
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Oxfams to the left of me, Oxfams to the right. Business? Missing in action
The North is about to pay a very high price for its isolation from both the British and Irish polities
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England? No
PATRICK WEST says Irish football fans shouldn’t be cheering on England come the World Cup—and it has nothing to do with Anglo-Irish relations
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Let’s kill ‘heritage Irish’
Get Irish off life support and into real life, says JASON WALSH
No place like home
The place is, to be honest, a bit of a dump. But that doesn’t matter. For a start, it’s only a ‘boot-up’ space and like many a first home away from home the point is that it exists, not that it is palatial.
Nighthawks at the café
On the second morning, self-doubt arrived. What was the value of this piece? Wasn't I just trying to talk to homeless people to get a quote that would round off my piece with a tragic bang?
The high walls
I'm stood beside the gates that form the only breach in the massive stone wall, looking through at the 'airlock' system of inner and outer perimeters, retelling the story of the most notorious escape.
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‘Governance’ without meaning
The Northern assembly may as well be empty—its business certainly has no content, says OWEN POLLEY
Family business, not affairs of state
Revelations that 188 children have died in care tell us that the state is not capable of parenting—why is this a surprise, asks JASON WALSH
Rome: Religion, decline and fall
In the penultimate article in his series on the Roman empire, CHRIS GRAY examines the rise of christianity, the loss of the west and the transition to feudalism
International waaah!
Israel is not bad daddy, the Palestinians and protestors are not children and it is stupid to ask the EU, UN and other supra-national bodies to drop bombs on civilians heads, says JASON WALSH
Rome: Expansion and upheaval
CHRIS GRAY continues his series on the Roman empire with an examination of the troubled period of expansion from 31BCE-284CE
Weekend Edition
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Poem of the week: untitled
By MAOLÍOSA BREATHNACH
Poem of the week: Alone and Drinking Under The Moon
By LI PO
Review: the Death Ship
JASON WALSH reviews a virtually lost work of fiction by B. Traven, author of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre
In case you missed: Jesus of Montréal
JASON WALSH on the celebration of an atheists’ mass in post-Quiet Revolution Québéc
Poem of the week: [Modern Love] IV
By GEORGE MEREDITH
Poem of the week: Quiet girl
By LANGSTON HUGHES
Forthcoming Events
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Exchange mechanism
From 11 February to 9 April 2010 forth is working as media partner with Belfast Exposed for the Exchange Mechanism series of events.
Exchange Mechanism: Freedom, censorship and control
Talks with Index on Censorship
Date: Friday March 12, 12 until 3PM
Venue: Belfast Exposed gallery, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF
Magazines are Dead, Long Live the Internet?
Debate at Magazines Ireland – Chairman’s Debate & Drinks’ Reception
Date: Tuesday 23 February 2010, 6PM
Venue: Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
Northern Ireland – democratic future or peace at any price?
Debate at the Belfast Salon
Date: Tuesday 16 February, 7-9 pm
Venue: Belfast Exposed gallery, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF
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