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Wirdheim in VilanovaMany people here claim that Catalonia is not Spain. As a tourist to Barcelona you can decide to ignore that, but we who have moved here can not do so. Here is the development of my familys perspective on our new home. |
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Recent Blog Posts
Who is following whose lead?
on Dec 31, 1969 in Society Reader WJ has sent an interesting piece that points to the massaging of unemployment figures from the folks on the hill, seems to show that Unions have been following after éirígí in recognising and raising the issue and also points to...
Terrorist to go to gaol?
on Dec 31, 1969 in Society One of the Greysteel murderers Torrens Knight was convicted last week of assaulting two women in Coleraine. Shaun Woodward is now to consider whether or not his licence should be revoked. Another of the Greysteel murderers Stephen Irwin has already b...
Posthumous apology to Alan Turing
on Dec 31, 1969 in Society Gordon Brown has made a posthumous apology to the late Alan Turing in response to a petition organised by John Graham–Cumming. Turing was a brilliant mathematician who was instrumental in the breaking of the German’s enigma code during the...
Robinson attacks Equality Commission
on Dec 31, 1969 in Society Peter Robinson has launched an attack on the Equality Commission following a meeting with the body. Mr Robinson said he was “appalled” that so few commission employees are Protestant, adding that he could not identify a single one of it...
What! ‘Confederacy Has Gotten A Bad Rap’
on Nov 28, 1999 in Conservatives History Politics Republicans Society Can you image the horror a PR firm would go through to find and promote the softer and more humane side to the Confederacy? Can you image trying to find the rationale to the argument that the institution of slavery was good for the ‘coloredR...