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Sunday and other stupid statements from this week All contributions welcome.
From this morning in the Irish Independent:
Now Powerscourt has cancelled the booking, presumably under pressure from activists who were planning to picket the venue in protest at Palantir’s links with Israel and the US…
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Sunday and other stupid statements from this week
All contributions welcome. From this morning in the Irish Independent: Now Powerscourt has cancelled the booking, presumably under pressure from activists who were planning to picket the venue in protest at Palantir’s links with Israel and the US military, both of which use its software to identify targets for missile strikes. To be fair to critics of the planned meeting, being suspicious when rich people gather in secret is a perfectly natural response.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/sunday-and-other-stupid-statements-from-this-week-135/
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Europe…. As Ireland's Presidency of the EU starts, there are far more pressing European matters coming for many League of Ireland fans. We're heading into the European Football Season next week. Am off to Malta myself to see Rovers take on Floriana in the First Round of the Champions League…
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Europe….
As Ireland's Presidency of the EU starts, there are far more pressing European matters coming for many League of Ireland fans. We're heading into the European Football Season next week. Am off to Malta myself to see Rovers take on Floriana in the First Round of the Champions League Qualifiers with the home leg the following Tuesday. In the Europa League Derry head off to Sofia to play CSKA.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/europe-3/
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Speaking of Summer that’s why it was noisy in Fairview this last three weeks… Yeah, that time of year again, when the trucks pull up in Fairview Park, the ground is cleared and a giant tent is put up. All for seven live concerts. There were nine last year, which was relentless. Eight the year…
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Speaking of Summer that’s why it was noisy in Fairview this last three weeks…
Yeah, that time of year again, when the trucks pull up in Fairview Park, the ground is cleared and a giant tent is put up. All for seven live concerts. There were nine last year, which was relentless. Eight the year before, likewise. Seven the year before that. Eight the first year. Seven feels more manageable, and perhaps I'm getting used to them but this year they seemed a little quieter (well, most of them).
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/speaking-of-summer-thats-why-it-was-noisy-in-fairview-this-last-three-weeks/
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The oldest human story? This is fascinating and hat tip to Tomboktu for drawing attention to it - research conducted some years back that points to what may well be the oldest human story.
As wiki notes:
The high visibility of the star cluster Pleiades in the night sky and its position along…
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The oldest human story?
This is fascinating and hat tip to Tomboktu for drawing attention to it - research conducted some years back that points to what may well be the oldest human story. As wiki notes: The high visibility of the star cluster Pleiades in the night sky and its position along the ecliptic (which approximates to the Solar System's common planetary plane) has given it importance in many cultures, ancient and modern.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/the-oldest-human-story/
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This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… More songs about the Summer Did this some years back,
a post in this slot on songs about Summer.
And it's Summer again! A little after mid-Summer too, but always found that strange because I kind of count late May and June as Summer, so there's still two…
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This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… More songs about the Summer
Did this some years back, a post in this slot on songs about Summer. And it's Summer again! A little after mid-Summer too, but always found that strange because I kind of count late May and June as Summer, so there's still two months of July and August left to go. Anyhow any favourites or obscure ones to add, feel free to put them in comments.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/this-weekend-ill-mostly-be-listening-to-more-songs-about-the-summer/
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Signs of Hope – A continuing series Gewerkschaftler suggested this a while back and it's as good an idea now as it was then. Whatever else those of us on the left need some hope, need some tangible achievements to hold on to, something that gives a sense of how things can be made better: “I…
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Signs of Hope – A continuing series
Gewerkschaftler suggested this a while back and it's as good an idea now as it was then. Whatever else those of us on the left need some hope, need some tangible achievements to hold on to, something that gives a sense of how things can be made better: “I suggest this blog should have a regular (weekly) slot where people can post happenings at the personal or political level that gives them hope that we’re perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket as quickly as we thought. Or as the phlegmatic Germans put it “hope dies last”.” Any contributions this week?
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/signs-of-hope-a-continuing-series-394/
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A UK election now, soon or at the end of this government’s term? Redzer asked in comments: Assuming that Burnham does succeed Starmer, will he call a snap election to give himself a proper mandate. And if he does, what happens to the DUP after the Donaldson verdicts? Both interesting questions,…
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A UK election now, soon or at the end of this government’s term?
Redzer asked in comments: Assuming that Burnham does succeed Starmer, will he call a snap election to give himself a proper mandate. And if he does, what happens to the DUP after the Donaldson verdicts? Both interesting questions, but the second I would hazard is coming into view just this week. The aftermath is very bad for the DUP. Already questions asked by his former colleague Jim Wells (now of the TUV) as to how much was known inside the DUP, though some listening to the BelTel podcast (the last seven episodes have, tellingly, dealt with Donaldson or the DUP) might have wondered why, given the egregious behaviours (though not at all illegal ones) described how alarm bells weren't going off about him years before.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/a-uk-election-now-soon-or-at-the-end-of-this-governments-term/
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Two-tier policing?
The National from Scotland has the following report:
On June 18 at 10pm, around 60 men dressed in black organised into four columns outside Glasgow Cathedral. Craig Houston, a Scottish podcaster and member of the
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Two-tier policing?
The National from Scotland has the following report: On June 18 at 10pm, around 60 men dressed in black organised into four columns outside Glasgow Cathedral. Craig Houston, a Scottish podcaster and member of the neo-Nazi-backed Restore Britain party, shared video of the event and suggested it showed “Glasgow rising”. Houston noted that the activists had laid a “wreath to our fallen” which read “we apologise", as well as a card reading "il fine giustifica i mezzi" – Italian for “the end justifies the means”.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/two-tier-policing/
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A period of quiet reflection…
Would not be inappropriate with reference to this character here:
Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has said Labour was not prepared enough for government or for the volatile world when Keir Starmer was first elected. McSweeney, who had…
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A period of quiet reflection…
Would not be inappropriate with reference to this character here: Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has said Labour was not prepared enough for government or for the volatile world when Keir Starmer was first elected. McSweeney, who had been Labour’s elections guru credited by many in the party for the size of their victory in 2024…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/a-period-of-quiet-reflection/
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Brexit
fan Hardly a surprise that the Guardian's Larry Elliott, long time eurosceptic, should argue at the time and after that Britain was right to leave the European Union. What's telling though is his rationale for supporting it, despite the evident problems left. What's also telling is he takes…
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Brexit fan
Hardly a surprise that the Guardian's Larry Elliott, long time eurosceptic, should argue at the time and after that Britain was right to leave the European Union. What's telling though is his rationale for supporting it, despite the evident problems left. What's also telling is he takes seriously Frank Furedi's thoughts on this matter. His first reason is that 'Europe isn't working'.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/brexit-fan-3/
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What’s seldom is wonderful and other thoughts on Brexit
Anyone see this from Stephen Collins over the weekend.
In the course of discussing
Brexit
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What’s seldom is wonderful and other thoughts on Brexit
Anyone see this from Stephen Collins over the weekend. In the course of discussing Brexit he makes some points worth considering. First and foremost he argues that the prognostications about economic catastrophe for the Republic of Ireland were overdone. Remember all the dire predictions a decade ago about the damage the Irish economy would suffer as a result of Brexit…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/whats-seldom-is-wonderful-and-other-thoughts-on-brexit/
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Were the 1970s and early 1980s anomalous in Irish party politics? I've been rereading Niamh Puirséil's excellent history of Irish Labour and one thing that struck me was how the party in the 1920s on to the 1960s was but one of many political formations, the old 2.5 (more accurately 2.15?) party…
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Were the 1970s and early 1980s anomalous in Irish party politics?
I've been rereading Niamh Puirséil's excellent history of Irish Labour and one thing that struck me was how the party in the 1920s on to the 1960s was but one of many political formations, the old 2.5 (more accurately 2.15?) party structure of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour was only extant for a relatively short period with those as the three dominant parties with - at most, a smattering of Independents.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/were-the-1970s-and-early-1980s-anomalous-in-irish-party-politics/
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That Business Post poll As noted by Paul Culloty, the Business Post/RedC had a poll this weekend: New Business Post poll perhaps most notable for the Soc Dems moving within touching distance of third: SF 21% (-) FG 18% (+1) FF 14% (-1) SD 12% (+2) Aontú 6% (-1) Ind Ireland 5% (-2) Lab 4% (-)…
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That Business Post poll
As noted by Paul Culloty, the Business Post/RedC had a poll this weekend: New Business Post poll perhaps most notable for the Soc Dems moving within touching distance of third: SF 21% (-) FG 18% (+1) FF 14% (-1) SD 12% (+2) Aontú 6% (-1) Ind Ireland 5% (-2) Lab 4% (-) PBP-Solidarity 4% (-) Greens 3% (-) Independents 12% (+1)
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/that-business-post-poll-2/
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What you want to say –1 July 2026 As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
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What you want to say –1 July 2026
As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/what-you-want-to-say-1-july-2026/
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Air con dispute Here's another example of a 'respectful debate' that is anything but. Eamonn Sweeney in his latest post on substack notes a very curious angle on the culture wars from the US. One that is positioned in US liberalism as much as anything else.
This being the following:
Lucelia…
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Air con dispute
Here's another example of a 'respectful debate' that is anything but. Eamonn Sweeney in his latest post on substack notes a very curious angle on the culture wars from the US. One that is positioned in US liberalism as much as anything else. This being the following: Lucelia Rodrigues, Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Cities at the University of Nottingham, who pointed out on Channel Four news that you can’t simply air condition yourself out of a climate crisis.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/air-con-dispute/
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Mutterings and more in FF
Speaking of councillors, it would be probably unwise to draw a line between Fianna Fáil's truly dismal poll rating this weekend - 14%, no less, and the events in Wexford:
Fianna Fáil Councillor (and Cathoirleach of Wexford County Council) Joe Sullivan’s decision to resign…
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Mutterings and more in FF
Speaking of councillors, it would be probably unwise to draw a line between Fianna Fáil's truly dismal poll rating this weekend - 14%, no less, and the events in Wexford: Fianna Fáil Councillor (and Cathoirleach of Wexford County Council) Joe Sullivan’s decision to resign from the party he has represented since he was first elected in 2014 was common knowledge, the manner in which he would announce it was less certain.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/mutterings-and-more-in-ff/
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Poll toppers and councillors lost Curious that at the point where the Social Democrats are recording truly strong polling numbers, as in the poll at the weekend which cements the idea they are in low double digits, this should be happening. The loss of a number of councillors from the party in…
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Poll toppers and councillors lost
Curious that at the point where the Social Democrats are recording truly strong polling numbers, as in the poll at the weekend which cements the idea they are in low double digits, this should be happening. The loss of a number of councillors from the party in recent times. Dublin City Councillor Aishling Silke has announced that she has left the Social Democrats party and will be sitting in the council as an Independent.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/poll-toppers-and-councillors-lost/
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Sinn Féin on the riots
A piece here on An Phoblacht from SF National Chairperson Declan Kearney, MLA.
Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic minority and migrant people in greater Belfast, forcing families from their homes. Elsewhere in the north of Ireland, multiple violent…
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Sinn Féin on the riots
A piece here on An Phoblacht from SF National Chairperson Declan Kearney, MLA. Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic minority and migrant people in greater Belfast, forcing families from their homes. Elsewhere in the north of Ireland, multiple violent attacks and intimidatory protests took place. This vicious onslaught was preceded by a murderous knife attack in North Belfast which caused inevitable shock and outrage.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/sinn-fein-on-the-riots/
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That Burnham bounce? Not exactly conspicuous, but if one looks at the Graphical summary of polling in the UK on wiki it does look as if there's a small uptick in the polling for the Labour Party ahead of his arrival as leader. Then again Reform too has seen a bit of an uptick - as has the Tories.…
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That Burnham bounce?
Not exactly conspicuous, but if one looks at the Graphical summary of polling in the UK on wiki it does look as if there's a small uptick in the polling for the Labour Party ahead of his arrival as leader. Then again Reform too has seen a bit of an uptick - as has the Tories. Curious too, the Liberal Democrats seem to have levelled off and the Green Party has taken a precipitous dive.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/that-burnham-bounce/
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Left Archive: An Ghrian Dhearg, Issue 3, Irish Socialist Republicans, 2022 To download the above click on the following link: An Ghrian Dhearg- Issue 3Download Many thanks to Aidan Feenan for donating this and a number of other documents to the Archive. They are very much appreciated. As noted…
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Left Archive: An Ghrian Dhearg, Issue 3, Irish Socialist Republicans, 2022
To download the above click on the following link: An Ghrian Dhearg- Issue 3Download Many thanks to Aidan Feenan for donating this and a number of other documents to the Archive. They are very much appreciated. As noted previously Irish Socialist Republicans (ISR) is a Maoist organisation formed in 2017. From its own publication, An Ghrian Dhearg: Irish Socialist Republicans (ISR) was established as a revolutionary organisation upholding Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as a third and higher stage of Marxism and the shining path to Revolution in Ireland.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/left-archive-an-ghrian-dhearg-issue-3-irish-socialist-republicans-2022/
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History Books thread, June banjoagbeanjoe suggests: What about a History Books regular thread? Like the Culture one. Fire ahead!
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History Books thread, June
banjoagbeanjoe suggests: What about a History Books regular thread? Like the Culture one. Fire ahead!
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/history-books-thread-june/
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Culture Thread 28/6/2026 gregtimo proposed in comments some while back the idea of a Culture Thread. It’s a great idea. Currently culture is a bit strange, but people read, listen to music, watch television and film and so on – spread the net wide, sports, activities, interests, all relevant – and…
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Culture Thread 28/6/2026
gregtimo proposed in comments some while back the idea of a Culture Thread. It’s a great idea. Currently culture is a bit strange, but people read, listen to music, watch television and film and so on – spread the net wide, sports, activities, interests, all relevant – and any pointers are always welcome. And it’s not just those areas but many more. Suggestions as to new or old things, events that might have been missed, literally anything.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/culture-thread-28-6-2026/
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Friends of Dorothy and Garak In comments in the last week or two Tomboktu noted that: For pride month, from Wikipedia’s entry on Friends of Dorothy: Misunderstanding In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service (NIS), the predecessor to the modern-day Naval Criminal…
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Friends of Dorothy and Garak
In comments in the last week or two Tomboktu noted that: For pride month, from Wikipedia’s entry on Friends of Dorothy: Misunderstanding In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service (NIS), the predecessor to the modern-day Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as “friends of Dorothy”.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/friends-of-dorothy-and-garak/
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Sunday and other stupid statements from this week All contributions welcome.
This from this morning on Andy Burnham's Irishness:
Why some people in Ireland continue to be impressed by, or even interested in, such a statistically unremarkable detail remains a mystery — especially as an obsession…
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Sunday and other stupid statements from this week
All contributions welcome. This from this morning on Andy Burnham's Irishness: Why some people in Ireland continue to be impressed by, or even interested in, such a statistically unremarkable detail remains a mystery — especially as an obsession with Irish blood tends to be seen as a red flag for far-right, nativist tendencies these days. What is undoubted is that our desire to establish a genetic connection with certain politicians directly correlates to how much we already like them.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/sunday-and-other-stupid-statements-from-this-week-134/
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“A.I.” and holidays? Conor Pope in the Irish Times
had this recently, organising, if that is the correct term, a holiday in Ireland using A.I.
Now, having had reason to use so-called 'A.I.' closely and also, though not simultaneously, book various train journey's across Europe recently it strikes…
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“A.I.” and holidays?
Conor Pope in the Irish Times had this recently, organising, if that is the correct term, a holiday in Ireland using A.I. Now, having had reason to use so-called 'A.I.' closely and also, though not simultaneously, book various train journey's across Europe recently it strikes me how useless the former is with relation to the latter. It took a process of hours to investigate routes, sign up to various rail providers, check connections, see that there were trains and those trains at the correct times and then purchase tickets.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/a-i-and-holidays/
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Watergate, the X-Files and conspiracy theories
Starkadder in comments and a comment recently which really resonated with something I'd heard recently. They wrote:
Starkadder says:
June 21, 2026 at 1:59 pm
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The mainstreaming of conspiracy theories we mentioned makes me think about how the…
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Watergate, the X-Files and conspiracy theories
Starkadder in comments and a comment recently which really resonated with something I'd heard recently. They wrote: Starkadder says: June 21, 2026 at 1:59 pm Edit The mainstreaming of conspiracy theories we mentioned makes me think about how the 2016-18 revival of “The X-Files” failed to make an impact. I think it was because the culture around conspiracy theories had changed so radically.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/watergate-the-x-files-and-conspiracy-theories/
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This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… The Shamrock Showband Saw these a while back and found them quite entertaining. Needless to say they're not a showband but are described as a psychedelic country and Irish band... with a bit of Cajun thrown in. Their debut album is due out at some stage in…
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This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… The Shamrock Showband
Saw these a while back and found them quite entertaining. Needless to say they're not a showband but are described as a psychedelic country and Irish band... with a bit of Cajun thrown in. Their debut album is due out at some stage in June.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/this-weekend-ill-mostly-be-listening-to-the-shamrock-showband/
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“You will not colonise our flag”
Good point made by former President Mary McAleese when she noted:
Mrs McAleese compared people who use the Irish flag to intimidate and say "Ireland for the Irish", to the "no Irish need apply" signs in the UK and the US. "Do they know nothing about our history as…
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“You will not colonise our flag”
Good point made by former President Mary McAleese when she noted: Mrs McAleese compared people who use the Irish flag to intimidate and say "Ireland for the Irish", to the "no Irish need apply" signs in the UK and the US. "Do they know nothing about our history as immigrants? "Do they know nothing about the impact of immigration-based racism on our people, have they no conscious about that?
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/you-will-not-colonise-our-flag/
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Meanwhile, back in Manchester Hope Not Hate notes: Exclusive polling, commissioned by HOPE not hate, reveals just how close a contest will be. A survey of 1,143 voters, carried out between 22 May and 5 June, found Labour on 33.2%, Reform 30.1%, Greens 12.5% and Conservatives on 11.1%. Fuller…
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Meanwhile, back in Manchester
Hope Not Hate notes: Exclusive polling, commissioned by HOPE not hate, reveals just how close a contest will be. A survey of 1,143 voters, carried out between 22 May and 5 June, found Labour on 33.2%, Reform 30.1%, Greens 12.5% and Conservatives on 11.1%. Fuller details of the by-election here. HNH also notes there are limitations: However, it should be noted that this poll was conducted before the by-election was announced and candidates declared.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/meanwhile-back-in-manchester/
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Political posters!
Here's something that will surprise none of us here, though least of all Irish Election Literature.
The Electoral Commission has found that posters are more effective than social media in raising awareness about elections, often reaching “low interest” voters, playing an…
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Political posters!
Here's something that will surprise none of us here, though least of all Irish Election Literature. The Electoral Commission has found that posters are more effective than social media in raising awareness about elections, often reaching “low interest” voters, playing an important role in the democratic process. A review of the use of posters in elections by the Commission found that while Irish people dislike them, and want to see their usage reduced, politicians and candidates see them as crucial.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/political-posters-3/
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Now they tell us It's enlightening to listen to the Belfast Telegraph podcast on the Donaldson verdict that saw him guilty of child sex abuse and rape. The sense of a visceral shock to the political system in the North is very real. It was striking following the trial on a near daily basis that…
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Now they tell us
It's enlightening to listen to the Belfast Telegraph podcast on the Donaldson verdict that saw him guilty of child sex abuse and rape. The sense of a visceral shock to the political system in the North is very real. It was striking following the trial on a near daily basis that Donaldson had no defence. Did not even really attempt to muster one.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/now-they-tell-us/
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Dozens of Israelis from the country’s security, political and cultural elite have threatened legal action against their government over support for Jewish terrorism and an “ideology of ethnic cleansing” in the occupied West…
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Long past time
...but perhaps a sign of just how far things have gone. Dozens of Israelis from the country’s security, political and cultural elite have threatened legal action against their government over support for Jewish terrorism and an “ideology of ethnic cleansing” in the occupied West Bank, according to a leaked letter. Two former prime ministers, former heads of all the Israeli security services, former judges, a Nobel laureate and the country’s most revered living novelist were among the signatories to a “final warning” over violence against Palestinians.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/long-past-time-5/
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White wine whine? Not keen on this becoming a weekly thing, but a column in the Sunday Independent supposedly on Brexit was difficult to miss this last weekend because there was the continued reliance on the single transferable column topic. That topic being immigration! This was shoe-horned into…
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White wine whine?
Not keen on this becoming a weekly thing, but a column in the Sunday Independent supposedly on Brexit was difficult to miss this last weekend because there was the continued reliance on the single transferable column topic. That topic being immigration! This was shoe-horned into a piece about Brexit which swung away to incorporate Australia and then circled back to... Ireland.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/white-wine-whine/
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Tactical voting on steroids dublinstreams in comments made a point that really needs to be considered about the Makerfield by-election result.
The observation?
300 die-hard Green voters, 163 LD… That's a fall of 3.7% for the Green Party and 6.4% for the Liberal Democrats from 1,776 and 2,735…
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Tactical voting on steroids
dublinstreams in comments made a point that really needs to be considered about the Makerfield by-election result. The observation? 300 die-hard Green voters, 163 LD… That's a fall of 3.7% for the Green Party and 6.4% for the Liberal Democrats from 1,776 and 2,735 respectively from 2024. Add to that: Peter Kellner, the former YouGov president, has published his analysis of the Makerfield result in…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/tactical-voting-on-steroids/
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Martin ‘defers’ triple-lock Bill until Autumn
Interesting, mentioned on Monday that there was evidence that the campaigning around the issue had generated disquiet in Fianna Fáil. Now one reads:
The Government will not proceed any further with legislation to remove the triple lLock until the…
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Martin ‘defers’ triple-lock Bill until Autumn
Interesting, mentioned on Monday that there was evidence that the campaigning around the issue had generated disquiet in Fianna Fáil. Now one reads: The Government will not proceed any further with legislation to remove the triple lLock until the autumn, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told a meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party. The Government approved the text of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2026 earlier this month with the intention of having it enacted before the end of the year.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/martin-defers-triple-lock-bill-until-autumn/
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What you want to say –24 June 2026 As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
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What you want to say –24 June 2026
As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/what-you-want-to-say-24-june-2026/
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What sort of impact would a Burnham leadership have on the Labour Party’s fortunes? Very conveniently, for anyone asking that question, we have two useful bits of information.
First up there's this from Wiki:
Labour: 30%, Tory 20%, Reform 27%, LD 11%, Green 7%, SNP 3% Others 3% This was taken by…
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What sort of impact would a Burnham leadership have on the Labour Party’s fortunes?
Very conveniently, for anyone asking that question, we have two useful bits of information. First up there's this from Wiki: Labour: 30%, Tory 20%, Reform 27%, LD 11%, Green 7%, SNP 3% Others 3% This was taken by More in Common between 15-19 May. Event may overtake that. But feed those figures into the model at Electoral Calculus and predicted seats are as follows:
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/what-sort-of-impact-would-a-burnham-leadership-have-on-the-labour-partys-fortunes/
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A double standard Listening to Alastair Campbell's thoughts on the departure of Starmer and presumed arrival of Burnham,
in passing he made a point that it was disgusting the lack of media coverage of the attacks on Muslims in Edinburgh
. He also noted a double standard in respect to the coverage…
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A double standard
Listening to Alastair Campbell's thoughts on the departure of Starmer and presumed arrival of Burnham, in passing he made a point that it was disgusting the lack of media coverage of the attacks on Muslims in Edinburgh. He also noted a double standard in respect to the coverage of the attacks on Jewish people in Golders Green. And he's right, it's not that one should be downplayed, it is that both are appalling.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a-double-standard/
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Why he had to go and why he should never have been elected leader
Reading Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian about the end of the Starmer era (is six or seven year period long enough to describe as an era?) last night I was surprised by this.
Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime…
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Why he had to go and why he should never have been elected leader
Reading Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian about the end of the Starmer era (is six or seven year period long enough to describe as an era?) last night I was surprised by this. Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/why-he-had-to-go-and-why-he-should-never-have-been-elected-leader/
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Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty
Breaking news.
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Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty
Breaking news.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/jeffrey-donaldson-found-guilty/
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Starmer out
A bit bemused at how quickly this has all gone.
But then one looks at the polling on Starmer and how he is so profoundly unpopular and the sense that it cannot be changed. He seems to get that too: The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next…
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Starmer out
A bit bemused at how quickly this has all gone. But then one looks at the polling on Starmer and how he is so profoundly unpopular and the sense that it cannot be changed. He seems to get that too: The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/starmer-out/
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Triple Lock and Fianna Fáil
Looks like grassroots campaigning on the issue of the Triple Lock may be paying off:
Taoiseach Micheál Martin's desire to change the Triple Lock, and no longer require UN approval before sending more than 12 troops abroad, is facing a backbench pushback. The Fianna Fáil…
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Triple Lock and Fianna Fáil
Looks like grassroots campaigning on the issue of the Triple Lock may be paying off: Taoiseach Micheál Martin's desire to change the Triple Lock, and no longer require UN approval before sending more than 12 troops abroad, is facing a backbench pushback. The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party will discuss the issue this week after several of its TDs signed a letter which argues that the new policy needs to be considered as "a matter of urgency."
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/triple-lock-and-fianna-fail/
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Left Archive: The Way Forward for Socialist Republicans in Ireland, Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, March 2023 To download the above please click on the following links: PODDownload
Please click here to go the Left Archive.
Many thanks to the person who scanned and forwarded this…
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Left Archive: The Way Forward for Socialist Republicans in Ireland, Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, March 2023
To download the above please click on the following links: PODDownload Please click here to go the Left Archive. Many thanks to the person who scanned and forwarded this document to the Archive. As noted previously O'Donnell, born in 1893 and died in 1986, was one of the pivotal radical figures in Irish history, a republican, socialist and writer who later…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/left-archive-the-way-forward-for-socialist-republicans-in-ireland-peadar-odonnell-socialist-republican-forum-march-2023/
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Sunday and other stupid statements from this week All examples welcome.
A discussion on Brexit has this:
Bad actors were quick to exploit these potential flashpoints. Shortly post 8am the day after the Brexit vote, Morning Ireland got Sinn Féin’s late deputy first minister Martin McGuinness on the…
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Sunday and other stupid statements from this week
All examples welcome. A discussion on Brexit has this: Bad actors were quick to exploit these potential flashpoints. Shortly post 8am the day after the Brexit vote, Morning Ireland got Sinn Féin’s late deputy first minister Martin McGuinness on the line. He declared that Britain now had “no democratic mandate to represent” Northern Ireland, and that it was a “democratic imperative for a border poll to be held”.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/sunday-and-other-stupid-statements-from-this-week-133/
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Alternative 3 – SMFH
Okay, years ago, literally, wrote a piece on this site about a fine 1970s Anglia TV hoax documentary. This was Alternative 3 and as noted in the piece:
What it purported to be was an account of the disappearance of a number of scientists, a link with the space programme, or…
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Alternative 3 – SMFH
Okay, years ago, literally, wrote a piece on this site about a fine 1970s Anglia TV hoax documentary. This was Alternative 3 and as noted in the piece: What it purported to be was an account of the disappearance of a number of scientists, a link with the space programme, or rather a secret space programme and a video tape which when decoded was meant to show the first landing on Mars by a joint Soviet/American team in the early to mid-1960s which…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/alternative-3-smfh/
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Back on Bluesky Apologies to anyone who follows the CLR on Bluesky, we only realised recently, thanks to Tomboktu, that it wasn't working and hadn't been for a month or two. There's some setting at either the Wordpress end or Bluesky's side that seems to stop after a period of time. Anyhow, it's a…
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Back on Bluesky
Apologies to anyone who follows the CLR on Bluesky, we only realised recently, thanks to Tomboktu, that it wasn't working and hadn't been for a month or two. There's some setting at either the Wordpress end or Bluesky's side that seems to stop after a period of time. Anyhow, it's a sign - perhaps, that many of us aren't hugely invested in that side of social media, but that's just us!
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/back-on-bluesky/
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David Hockney Mentioned last week, the passing of David Hockney. He was a genuine character and an artist of considerable genius.
This is a painting of his I'm particularly fond of
. Nice of the Tate to provide an insight into it but as with the best art it speaks for itself. Though I like his…
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David Hockney
Mentioned last week, the passing of David Hockney. He was a genuine character and an artist of considerable genius. This is a painting of his I'm particularly fond of. Nice of the Tate to provide an insight into it but as with the best art it speaks for itself. Though I like his honesty in the following quote: When you photograph a splash, you’re freezing a moment and it becomes something else.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/david-hockney/
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This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Cabaret Voltaire’s Micro-Phonies Still working slowly through post-punk and after, and here's a track that sits at a cross-roads between that genre and dance and industrial. Released in late 1984 at this stage it's quite the listen - a landmark in…
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This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Cabaret Voltaire’s Micro-Phonies
Still working slowly through post-punk and after, and here's a track that sits at a cross-roads between that genre and dance and industrial. Released in late 1984 at this stage it's quite the listen - a landmark in electronic music from Sheffield and from the time. That industrial aspect, a certain abstract quietly, is present and correct, but are those bits that sound like Art of Noise or Propaganda?
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/this-weekend-ill-mostly-be-listening-to-cabaret-voltaires-micro-phonies/
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After Brexit: A UK economy weakened and weaker
The Guardian this weekend had a very useful outline of the impacts of Brexit ten years on. As it notes:
As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote approaches, the verdict on Britain’s economic performance is clear: voting to leave has resulted in…
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After Brexit: A UK economy weakened and weaker
The Guardian this weekend had a very useful outline of the impacts of Brexit ten years on. As it notes: As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote approaches, the verdict on Britain’s economic performance is clear: voting to leave has resulted in severe costs for households and businesses. The immediate recession predicted in the Treasury forecasts ordered by George Osborne – dubbed “
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/after-brexit-a-uk-economy-weakened-and-weaker/
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Signs of Hope – A continuing series Gewerkschaftler suggested this a while back and it's as good an idea now as it was then. Whatever else those of us on the left need some hope, need some tangible achievements to hold on to, something that gives a sense of how things can be made better: “I…
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Signs of Hope – A continuing series
Gewerkschaftler suggested this a while back and it's as good an idea now as it was then. Whatever else those of us on the left need some hope, need some tangible achievements to hold on to, something that gives a sense of how things can be made better: “I suggest this blog should have a regular (weekly) slot where people can post happenings at the personal or political level that gives them hope that we’re perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket as quickly as we thought. Or as the phlegmatic Germans put it “hope dies last”.” Any contributions this week?
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/signs-of-hope-a-continuing-series-393/
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