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Friday Links

Posted on January 8, 2016 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday. It has not been the best of weeks, the shock of going back to work, the horror of discovering that I had mice in the house! Here are this week’s links…. I read 164 books in 2015, this … Continue reading →

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Friday Links – 1 January 2016

Posted on January 1, 2016 by nicdempsey

Happy New Year, Happy Friday and so on… David Cameron’s Britain is profoundly unchristian. That Christmas message is the best example of rank hypocrisy I have come across. Given that the north of the country is mostly underwater at the … Continue reading →

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Thursday Links – 24 December 2015

Posted on December 24, 2015 by nicdempsey

We’re going a day early on links because of Christmas… The Tories are unstitching the tapestry of our democracy. Last week, John Major was on the radio and I found myself wishing that he was still Prime Minister. I remember … Continue reading →

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Friday Links – 18 December

Posted on December 18, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I managed a full (ish – I’m still on reduced hours!) working week this week, and I’m still happy to get to the end of it. Here is some reading for the weekend. When bad boys lose appeal. … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on December 11, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Ok it’s now late on Friday, this is because after a very tiring week at work and slightly overdoing it yesterday, my purple foot and I had to take the day off work so I could elevate and … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on December 4, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I’ve had a week of feeling a bit down, so three links this week! Mark Steele on bombing Syria. When I worked in Social Services, a social worker told me that the difference between parents of children in … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on November 27, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! This week I have been mostly doing cross-stitch, so not as many links… Woman and ISIS. This is a long read but worth it. The mid-life crisis is real. Apparently, I’m at that ‘most unhappy’ age. I think … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on November 20, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! So this weeks links can be divided into two categories, Paris (and Paris adjacent articles) and everything else. I’m going to start with Paris. Actually I’m going to start with Beirut and Iraq…Did the media ignore Beirut or … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on November 13, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! This week has been much like last week, with more showering, which is bizarre and I have to do with someone else in the house (thanks Ma!) so I don’t fall over…oh the glamour.. Loneliness and income inequality. … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on November 6, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! This week’s links… Women who have to travel to England for abortions. I support the right of women to have abortions but I’m reluctant to wade into the rights and wrongs of access to abortion in the Republic. … Continue reading →

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