Browsing archives for 'Europe'

Racism and hating children

Europe, Racism, commerce and trade, politics 10 March 2010 1 Comment

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/10/racism-and-hating-children/’;
digg_title = ‘Racism and hating children’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Next week begins European Week Against Racism, a week when organisations opposed to racism host events to highlight racial prejudice and discrimination, and to celebrate the existence of societies where discrimination on the colour of a person’s skin or their ethnicity is considered unacceptable.
Normally, I mark [...]

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Ireland vs France.

Europe, Europe, Hoons, Ireland 19 October 2009 0 Comments

So, how does someone with an irrational, childish, offensive, misanthropic and uncouth national antipathy for both France and Ireland go about deciding who to jeer more?

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Lisbon whataboutery

Europe, Ireland 3 October 2009 1 Comment

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digg_title = ‘Lisbon whataboutery’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Note: regular readers of Slugger O’Toole will call this entire article whataboutery.  It is.  I’m predicting a possible future here, so don’t hate me if you don’t like the scenario I depict. Please don’t cry, and certainly don’t have nightmares.
I had three strange conversations about Lisbon today, from [...]

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Political suppression 101

Europe, Ireland, politics 18 September 2009 2 Comments

come and see Ireland, come and see the way an EU referendum is handled, and consider whether the people here really are free to vote in a fair referendum. But don’t say you weren’t warned what to expect.

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