Comments on The Pensive Quill: Not So Slippery Anymore

A very good piece, Mackers.

2009-11-24T15:59:37.359Z

A very good piece, Mackers.

Thanks AM.

2009-11-24T09:57:36.218Z

Thanks AM.

Starry Plough, I will talk to him and ask him if h...

2009-11-23T21:17:24.724Z

Starry Plough, I will talk to him and ask him if he wants to write a piece. I only recently read it and found his perspective had a lot of foresight. Not sure if it is online. Will ask him if he has an electronic copy which I will forward on to you if he has.

Interestign piece raising many questions and chall...

2009-11-23T20:52:40.650Z

Interestign piece raising many questions and challenges for republicans who wsh to build a joint future. Any chance of you speaking with David and getting his present assessment of the situation.

Also is his document on line anywhere

Ardoyne Republican, how would you explain the peri...

2009-11-23T19:31:10.533Z

Ardoyne Republican, how would you explain the perils to them?

While Irish Republicans need to take into account ...

2009-11-23T10:15:33.864Z

While Irish Republicans need to take into account the views and feelings of all shades of Unionism.....

We also need to challenge them on aspects of the perils of supporting the British State in it's occupation of part of Ireland.

Christopher Hitchens reviewing "The Zealot&qu...

2009-11-23T03:52:40.619Z

Christopher Hitchens reviewing "The Zealot" a biography of Arthur Koestler cites his abandonment of Communism after the 1938 Stalinist show trials: "It is a logical contradiction when with uncanny regularity the leadership sees itself obliged to undertake more and more bloody operations within the movement, and in the same breath insists that the movement is healthy. Such an accumulation of grave surgical interventions points with much greater likelihood to the existence of a much more serious illness."

I read this review today before your post, AM. I'd thought of you between Koestler's lines already, and even more so after your reflections here. Thanks for them.

I can't help but notice that the description s...

2009-11-22T23:17:21.181Z

I can't help but notice that the description sounds so very like Lord Macaulay!"If only we superior beings(The British) hadn't made some few errors,with these primitives-----" - not unlike the formula in "South Park"(hope you get it there) "Underwear plus ????= Profit?!?!