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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link St George?s Flags Create ?No-Go Zones? for Staff, NHS Claims Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:16 | Will Jones
St George's flags are creating "no-go zones" for NHS staff, leaving them feeling intimidated, including when they are visiting people in their homes, senior NHS leaders have said.
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offsite link Harriet Harman?s Bullying and Harassment Review Will Harass Lawyers Everywhere Tue Nov 11, 2025 09:00 | Stephen Willmer
Harriet Harman's review of bullying and harassment for the Bar Council has, predictably, found a 'massive' problem and made dozens of nannying recommendations. But less than 1% of lawyers replied, says Stephen Willmer.
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offsite link The BBC Can?t Be Reformed ? Its Purpose is Propaganda and Disinformation Tue Nov 11, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
The BBC has been caught producing Verified bullshit. It may well even be reformulating its position on climate change. But the corporation can't be reformed, says Ben Pile. Its purpose is propaganda and disinformation.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Nov 11, 2025 00:44 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Memories of the Way We Were Mon Nov 10, 2025 19:45 | Graham Cunningham
What have 70 years of liberal 'progress' done to us? Graham Cunningham looks back on the England of his youth and sees a society that, while not perfect, had strengths and charms that are now almost gone forever.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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Britain's Child Army

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Saturday February 03, 2007 16:06author by pat c Report this post to the editors

Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins
are getting," she says.


Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript.

pat c

Britain's child army

Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate
recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young
schoolchildren

On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class.

Warrant Officer Nick Froehling, however, is young, friendly and easy going. Within minutes he has the children doing rifle drill, shifting model SA80s from shoulder to arm's length and back down to "at ease" - although Froehling doesn't say "At ease". He prefers the order "Chill".

2,000 shortfall in numbers of actual recruits against targets in October
2006

6.6% of recruits in 2006 were women

7.3% of current army personnel are of an ethnic minority

21 years the largest age-group among personnel

£12,000 starting salary of a new recruit

27 average age of British soldiers killed in Iraq in 2006

Related Link: http://www.newstatesman.com/200702050015

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Nothing new under the sun     A.Nonimouse    Sun Feb 04, 2007 19:44 
   Indeed     pat c    Mon Feb 05, 2007 09:46 
   This, lads, is a fish knife     pat c    Mon Feb 05, 2007 13:07 
   boy soldiers     john w.    Mon Feb 05, 2007 21:18 
   John W     Jerry Cornelius    Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:37 


 
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