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Government Health The Inter-Department Co-Ordination Board

Actual Planning with Data

February 24, 2017 No Comments

A sensible statement about health planning for once. Imagine using actual data to plan capacity: Ireland needs to use demographic information for the provision of long-term health strategies in the same as the country plans for education, Minister for Health Simon Harris has said. Mr Harris accepted he had to deal with day to day […]

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Fuck the patriarchy

Suppression of anger

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 No Comments

Helen Blackman on how ‘policed’ the simple need to sound off every now and then can be. Well worth a read: Sometimes I get annoyed. I get angry. I rant. I do things that would be normal in a man. In a woman? Oh no. That’s undignified. It’s shrewish. It’s strident. It’s outspoken. It’s hysterical […]

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Internets Oh Lol Trumperica You Couldn't Make It Up

“Mod Drama” in the Alt-Right

February 7, 2017 No Comments

This is a fascinating and delightful article by Katie Notopoulos, with its detail on classic Mod Dramas: Things have gotten bumpy for the alt-right online movement since the election. It’s facing an identity crisis (what does it mean to be the “alt” if you’re getting what you want?) and grappling with certain fundamental questions like […]

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Freedoms Government Politics Society

Autocracy Or Kleptocracy – Trump’s America

February 6, 2017 No Comments

David Frum expounds on the possible outcomes of Trump’s Presidency in the Atlantic. Fascinating and though-provoking, it’s a long but worhtwhile read. He covers something I’ve noted before: In an 1888 lecture, James Russell Lowell, a founder of this magazine, challenged the happy assumption that the Constitution was a “machine that would go of itself.” […]

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