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How music illuminates our lives
Strange. I was thinking about Lloyd yesterday, and playing this and Easy Pieces - a quick shot back to being 14, 15, confused and falling in love every other school lesson. I loved this record; those clean fluid guitar lines, the half spoken non-voice,...
Jane Haining the Scottish Martyr in Auschwitz
Jane Haining became the only Scottish man or woman named as “righteous among the nations,” When Jane Haining was given the opportunity to escape the Nazi invasion of Budapest, she refused to abandon the Jewish girls in her care, ultimately giving her...
Furniture from Auction: A pleasure
I started buying my furniture at auction years ago when I realised that for the price of an Ikea unit made from particleboard and liable to start looking frayed before if even finished putting it together, I could get something in solid hardwood that...
Streets are a factor in community
Streets are a factor, but natural meeting places are more important. We have a lot more restructuring of society to think of, especially if we want to stop extinction. We have, in effect, developed a system unsuited to people but suited to institutions....
Rozkrzyczany.
Rozkrzyczany. Krzyczenie nauczycieli na uczniów nie jest miłe. Zdarza się to za często. Dzieciom nie pomaga się krzycząc. Są inne podejścia niż krzyk. Zły nauczyciel - krzyczy. Dobry nauczyciel - uczy.
On Leaving the European Union
The truth is that the action of having a referendum on membership of the EU (2016) erroneously suggested that leaving was a sensible possibility. In the near fifty years since 1973 the UK has become entirely tied into the EU economy and international...
Arabic Freedom of Speech
Arabic Freedom of Speech now able to be read on the internet Just 0.6% of internet content is available in Arabic, despite it being the fourth most common language Recently there have been more than 2.1 million words added to the Arabic Wikipedia, including...
Northern Ireland. Religion and Politics 2019
In the Northern Ireland of 2019, religion is just a handy hook to use as an excuse for violence and crimininality. For those who do not know the root of the more recent "troubles" (as opposed to partition) here is an explanation: In the 1960s there was...
The problem of Dublin for those that live there
Dublin dominates Ireland to unhealthy degree 1/3 of the population, the vast majority of well-paid jobs, all of the country's largest tertiary institutions etc. One cause of this is that successive govts have abandoned spatial development strategies in...
multilingual fights off dementia
Interesting program reporting back on the nun study in which they took 678 nuns over 75 without dementia and followed up their cognitive abilities until they died. The advantage is they had a group with similar adult lives including diet, drug and alcohol...