From the latest Private Eye. "Political intent, not natural inevitability" pic.twitter.com/IxDcrQPjC1 — Mark Treasure (@AsEasyAsRiding) December 10, 2014 Previously
The BBC are have reported that a South African man is to be deported, as his wife isn’t earning enough. under rules introduced in 2012, British citizens who want to bring a foreign spouse to the UK must earn £18,600 a year and a further £3,800 – a total of £22,400 – if the couple […]
Or why being unbiased isn’t enough. This is a fascinating visual display of how just a little bias can result in a huge disparity, and why being anti-baised is the only way to reverse it: Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society.
Ever realised how fucking surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours on end, hallucinating vividly — Katie Oldham (@KatieOldham) December 9, 2014
Irish Times: High-level Government officials spoke first thing that morning, after which visiting figures from the commission were called to Merrion Street for an unscheduled meeting at 9am. Quite what transpired remains unclear. By all accounts, however, a severe rebuke was delivered by a high-level Department of Public Expenditure official over the intervention by the […]
Irishcycle.com: The council added: “The location with the highest percentage of cyclists in 2013 was Dame Street / Georges Street where cyclists made up 27.0% of all traffic. This location has had the highest percentage of cyclists in every year from 2007 to 2014.” Overall, the percentage of cyclists increased from 7.9 % in 2013 […]
Nobody is just one dimension, just one thing. A man who was homeless died on the streets of Dublin, just a few hundred metres from the Dail. Luke Murphy knew him well when they were younger, “Jonathan Corrie was one of my best friends when I was a boy“: Don’t scorn him for having chosen […]
List of women dying in Ireland’s maternity hospitals continues to grow. Tania McCabe, Bimbo Onanuga, Dhara Kivlehan, Savita Halappanavar, Jennifer Crean and now Sally Rowlette – the list of women who have died in or after childbirth in controversial circumstances in Irish maternity hospitals continues to lengthen. […] Ms Halappanavar might never have died if […]
Danny Cooke had an opportunity to explore Chernobyl and Pripyat while working on a CBS documentary earlier this year. Using a go-pro and drone, he posted this video of a land out of time, a ghost of the old Ukranian SSR. Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I’ve been. The nuclear […]
