by nabidana | Jun 18, 2010 | Northern Ireland
For decent, humanitarian, human-rights aware British people, this week has been both extremely affirming and incredibly painful. The affirmation is hard to express adequately, but it comes from the transcendent sense that we did the right thing this week. The...
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by nabidana | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Eric Pickles, Office of the Party Chairman Conservative and Unionist Party, 30 Millbank, London, SW1P 4DP Dear Chris, Whilst it is as you know not normally in my nature to write to members in a negative way, I feel that I really must write to you today to put on the...
by nabidana | Mar 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
The BBC reports that DUP MP Gregory Campbell has criticised the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissioner for raising concerns about the situation of currently detained terror suspects in Northern Ireland. Monica McWilliams has noted, quite correctly, that the...
by nabidana | Jun 11, 2008 | politics
Thanks to the DUP’s ridiculous caving to Government, and most likely some embarrassingly mercenery negotiating, the principle of Human Rights in the UK has been abandoned. Labour selling out to the DUP? We’ve now adopted the principle that terrorist...
by nabidana | Apr 10, 2008 | politics
Overheard in a chatroom (uttered by an American, obviously enough) last night: “People in London, they protest all the god-damned time. Every time something happens they hate, they go protest about it. We’re just not like that here” The Olympic...
