Tag Archives: Friday Links

Friday Links: Lockdown

Posted on March 27, 2020 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I hope you’re all coping with lockdown as well as you can. I’m finding working from home, all the time quite difficult but being at home just fine. I go to the allotment in the morning before work … Continue reading →

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Friday Links:

Posted on February 21, 2020 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I had a lot to read and say about it this week! The wealth gap: How changing fortunes tear close friends apart Interesting How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket Fighting the tyranny of ‘niceness’: why we … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Last day of January and EU Membership

Posted on January 31, 2020 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s the last day of January. Hurrah! And the official withdrawal date of the UK from the EU. So quite the day. I’m working from home and then going to have dinner with some friends. For the rest … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Election

Posted on November 29, 2019 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I can’t decide if it’s the weather, the month or the election bringing me down. It’s probably all three, here are this week’s links: ‘Twitter blackface’: Why Michael Gove’s Stormzy comments are so egregious Food is where the … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Ulster says no

Posted on October 18, 2019 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! So here we’re all about whether Boris Johnson can get the new deal with the EU through Parliament with minus 40-ish minority govt, or whether he will keep his 100% failure to get the House of Commons to … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Prorogued

Posted on August 30, 2019 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! So the big news where I am is that Boris Johnson has,  yet again, proved to be a lying, faithless snake who doesn’t believe in the sovereignty of Parliament or the Union. The Queen let him do it, … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: A cabinet of dunces and the morally ambiguous

Posted on July 26, 2019 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Well folks, it’s happened, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is Prime Minister and has appointed a cabinet. God help the country. And a good time to remind you of this. Here are this week’s links… John Marsden on … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Zombie Prime Minister

Posted on May 24, 2019 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! We’re going into a Bank Holiday weekend here, which is good because my brain is mush! Links below… To Fix the Catholic Church, Laypeople Need to Show Up. That’s a Church I could go back to… Hilary Mantel’s … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: As unplanned as it looks…

Posted on February 22, 2019 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Bill and Melinda Gates and the problem of the “good billionaire” The Snowflake in Chief Why I fought for the right to open up family courts to greater scrutiny. I’m mostly going to come down on the side … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Chilly

Posted on November 23, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! People, it’s been a week, work has been busy, it’s been cold and I have a nine year old nephew! (I have a 33 year old godson and yet the passing of time still surprises me!). Here are … Continue reading →

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