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Friday, 30 April 2021, 4:33 pm The difference between “progressive” and “liberal” gets to the core of what politics in the real world is actually about, and of whether the nation is being controlled by the public (a democracy), or instead is controlled by the tiny percentage of the population who are enormously wealthy (an aristocracy — a capitalistic dictatorship, or also called “fascism” — so that the public are actually the nation’s subjects, instead of the nation’s citi...

  The difference between “progressive” and “liberal” gets to the core of what politics in the real world is actually about, and of whether the nation is being controlled by the public (a democracy), or instead is controlled by the tiny percentage of the population who are enormously wealthy (an aristocracy — a capitalistic dictatorship, or also called “fascism” — so that the public are actually the nation’s subjects, instead of the nation’s citizens). Whereas progressivism ...

C4 secures Lidl and Cinch sponsorships Separate deals cover Sunday Brunch and cricket. by Daniel Farey-Jones Free email bulletins

Joe Biden will ram through warped liberal social experiments masquerading as credible, time-tested programs designed to stabilize the nation. (Article by Robert Bridge republished from Strategic-Culture.org) It was a stark image never before seen in Washington, DC, and one that bodes ill for the future prospects of the country. A locked down capital ringed in barbed wire, with 25,000 troops encompassing the Capitol building, provided a surreal backdrop to Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46 th...

A HISTORICAL fiction traces the protagonists of the Kinmel Camp Riot that hit the front pages of national newspapers in 1919. Kinmel Revisited, by Robert Bridge, follows an army officer during the two days in which 400 soldiers from the Canadian expeditionary force riot against British officers at the Bodelwyddan army training ground. It was sparked by meagre food rations and forced labour amid delays to their repatriation following the First World War. Five Canadian troops were killed by...

Jason Tripp announced MD of FMG Repair Services Redde Northgate has announced that Jason Tripp will welcome the new managing director of FMG Repair Services (formerly Nationwide Accident Repair Services).   Tripp will lead business forward as part of the wider group, further to its acquisition by Redde Northgate in September 2020.  https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet-industry-news/2015/08/20/fmg-accident-management-acquired-for-432m He joins FMG Repair Services from claims management and i...

​The cinch online car retail platform has appointed Robert Bridge as its new chief customer officer – bringing leadership experience from Yahoo, The Telegraph and Childs Farm.

My last column before Christmas is a plum pudding from which I will pluck out some sweet plums and a few bitter almonds. First plum: the Cork Holly Bough, which carries a fine picture of a relieved and happy Micheál Martin with his family, probably taken after he was finally reunited with them after his long Covid separation. It also carries my modest piece on the politics of Niall Tóibín, who in New York once reflected that if Jewish comedians could make jokes about the Holocaust, surely w...

A FORMER Fermanagh Unionist Councillor has been described as “a leading member of the UDA” who enlisted the help of a British Army officer to enable the Loyalist paramilitary group blow up Aghalane Bridge in 1972. Jack Leahy, a well-known publican in Lisnaskea and a member of the Ulster Unionist group on Fermanagh District Council, was identified by Captain Vernon Rees in an audio interview taped by the Imperial War Museum. Rees admitted that he agreed to Leahy’s request to keep tro...

The Belturbet bomb: an atrocity that time forgot RTÉ Investigates has uncovered a series of new details that shed light on a 1972 car bombing that killed two teenagers in Co Cavan. • 3 Feb 2021 RTÉ Investigates Sculptor Mel French regards the bronze statue in Belturbet as her most personal project. Two handsome figures – a long-haired schoolgirl with dancing shoes and an athletic young man with a football at his feet – face out onto Main Street. These sculptures represent two teenagers...