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| Wednesday 2 September 2009 |
How about a Celtic-Rangers rebellion?
A Celtic fan invites Rangers fans to join him in taking a stand against the authoritarian policing of Scottish football.
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| Thursday 29 January 2009 |
The Troubles: a product of ‘virulent’ madness?
The proposal to give £12,000 ‘recognition pay’ to the families of all of those killed in Northern Ireland is a subtle way of rewriting history.
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| Tuesday 28 October 2008 |
A real Hunger for change
Steve McQueen says his film is not political, yet it still shows us what people are capable of in pursuit of freedom and justice.
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| Tuesday 9 September 2008 |
Northern Ireland: painting over the cracks
20 years ago Kevin Rooney was defacing loyalist murals. So why is he now concerned that the authorities are removing them?
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| Friday 22 August 2008 |
From insurgency to identity
Like a magician wriggling free from a straitjacket, Sinn Fein ditched universalism and reinvented itself as a party of victimhood.
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| Friday 25 July 2008 |
From insurgency to identity
With the deftness of a magician wriggling free from a straitjacket, Sinn Fein ditched its universalist aspirations and reinvented itself as a municipal party of victimhood. A brilliant new book takes the party to task.
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| Monday 14 July 2008 |
Belfast: a tale of two cities
Rebranding Orange parades as ‘Orangefest’ and scrubbing murals off the walls cannot disguise the divisions that still exist in Belfast.
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| Friday 27 June 2008 |
Depoliticising the war in Northern Ireland
With its lurid descriptions of the 'feral youth' and fat 'toothless slatterns' of Belfast, Kevin Myers’ vicious attack on Irish Republicanism is an attempt to rewrite the history of the Troubles and absolve Britain of colonial guilt.
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| Monday 16 June 2008 |
‘After all the money you got. Ungrateful b*stards’
DUBLIN: Kevin Rooney reports on the Irish elite’s fury at the ‘unspeakable’ mass who dared to reject the Treaty.
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| Friday 29 February 2008 |
Defending Rangers from football’s Thought Police
A lifelong supporter of Celtic explains why he’s opposed to the intensified policing of Rangers fans’ chants and behaviour by a gang of moralistic politicians, cops and commentators.
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| Monday 29 October 2007 |
Citizenship education: making kids conform
The UK citizenship curriculum is authoritarian, undermines independent thinking and it won't solve the problem of political disengagement.
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