Posted in Bastards, Banks, satire on Aug 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
Dan Hannan is the Tory MEP who talked about the NHS recently on Glen Beck’s show:
This is what Charlie Brooker said about him last night on his brilliant Channel 4 program You Have Been Watching (remember the Taliban Vs The IRA?)
Posted in Irish Labour History, Labour, politics/Ireland on Aug 19th, 2009 5 Comments »
(The following is taken from an article by John Goodwillie which appeared in issue 9 of Gralton, Aug/Sep 1983. It was a supplement to a family tree of the Left which John created , and which I posted a couple of weeks ago here. Apologies in advance to John Goodwillie for copying and posting […]
Posted in Economy on Aug 17th, 2009 5 Comments »
It is hard not to be sarcastic about Arthur Beesley opinion piece in the Irish Times today, mainly because it’s just another regurgitation of the usual arguments that passes for analysis in the business pages of our daily newspapers.
In fact, so regularly are these arguments deployed now that it’s almost as if the business […]
Posted in United States, UK Politics, US Politics, Health on Aug 16th, 2009 5 Comments »
Following on from Graham Linehan’s defence of the NHS - and by extension his attack on the American right and their absolute hatred of not-for-profit health care - here’s the great man himself talking with Channel Four.
(By the way, Twitter is to me what VHS was to my father. Apparently it’s all the rage […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish Middle Class, Irish social history on Aug 16th, 2009 8 Comments »
Viewed by many as possibly the worst Irish film of all time, The Courier was released in 1988 in a chorus of publicity and, ahem, glamour. It did terrible at the box office, was shown once on UTV in 1990, and pretty much sank without trace after that. It is, quite frankly, awful.
However, back […]
Posted in Bastards on Aug 14th, 2009 7 Comments »
You may have heard about the Twitter trend that Graham Linehan has started #welovethenhs, which is a response to the absolute nonsense being spouted by the American right about the evils of the NHS, and its ‘death panels‘ in the current Health Reform debate in the US.
He explains all (through the joy of […]
Posted in fuckwits, Education, Irish Middle Class on Aug 6th, 2009 5 Comments »
Much back slapping this morning in the IT in the event of the publication of “one of the most comprehensive league tables published to date”. It is in essence a version of the Irish Times own feeder list but “is the first to take socio economic background into account”.
In other words the table which has […]
Posted in Bastards on Aug 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
Hugh Green via twitter:
Gardai arrest workers, assist Thomas Cook in meeting latest synergy targets, uphold right of CEO to rake in millions http://bit.ly/z8MZ5
From the Telegraph article linked to:
The bonus pay-out is part of a lucrative remuneration package that saw Mr Fontenla-Novoa’s total compensation soar from £2.89m in 2007 to more than £7m […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Times, Irish Society on Aug 4th, 2009 6 Comments »
“Most people who haven’t engaged with the system before and don’t know how to maximise benefits have no idea what they’re heading into. They are asked to produce bank statements and they produce them – only to find that no help is forthcoming until they’ve made themselves completely broke. (”Taking stock of the newly destitute“, […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on Aug 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is the part I meant to get to yesterday, but I found myself going off on tangents instead. With regard to background to the Quarterly Household Survey Q1 2009, its samples and definitions, please have a look at the previous post.
with regard to the following statistics:
“In Employment” is defined as “persons who worked in […]
