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Oct 2 2008 10:44PM
Who's to blame for Tim McGarry?

Or more precisely, who's responsible for the surprisingly athletic appearance of McGarry, host of the BBC's The Blame Game, in this pose take to publicise the Belfast live screening of the Secret Policeman's Ball ( 'when?', 'where?'...

Oct 2 2008 3:10PM
Remembering the Night of Tlatelolco

Today marks 40 years since one of the worst cases of mass killing took place in Mexico City’s history – the Tlatelolco massacre. As Al-Jazeera English reports, the massacre occurred when hundreds of students took to the main square in...

Oct 2 2008 12:08AM
Northern Ireland: a sexists' paradise?

Amnesty's survey of student attitudes on violence against women in Northern Ireland has set off a welcome media and blog debate about the Neanderthal views held by so many here towards women. The interest has been so great and I have...

Oct 1 2008 7:46PM
...not on many people's minds any more

Georgia and South Ossetia have slipped right off the news agenda – clearly not enough wealthy bankers there – but that doesn't mean everything’s hunky-dory. EU monitors started their mission there today , and already they’re having...

Sep 30 2008 2:26PM
Dirty laundry

I was recently watching My Beautiful Launderette on DVD. My girlfriend’s idea. I wasn’t massively keen. I’d seen it on TV in the eighties and remembered it as only ok-ish. But, hey, it was pretty good! It’s definitely strange though...