Read on Twitter
Interesting thread on advantage, complicity and being used by the Establishment. https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1267155127196176387
You’ll notice there’s been relatively little written about 2nd and 3rd gen Irish complicity. But the names of the scandal-hit speak for themselves. https://twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1266904783023034373?s=20
Brendan O’Neill insists Islamophobia is a myth, and minorities should just fit in.
That’d be the same fella who was an altar boy and whose Galway parents survived London in the 1960s/70s.
Works at Spiked with Claire Fox, Mick Hume, Michael Fitzpatrick. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation
That’d be the same fella who was an altar boy and whose Galway parents survived London in the 1960s/70s.
Works at Spiked with Claire Fox, Mick Hume, Michael Fitzpatrick. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation
Troubling numbers of the Irish in Britain gave BoJo their vote. https://www.irishpost.com/comment/can-anyone-irish-vote-conservatives-174449
There’s a certain ambiguity to having one foot either side of the Irish Sea, and I sometimes wonder if some of the ‘ah, just assimilate and kick the next man down’
is linked to trouble tolerating an ambiguous status: not quite Irish, not quite English. https://www.irishpost.com/comment/plastic-paddy-myth-complexity-irish-181351
is linked to trouble tolerating an ambiguous status: not quite Irish, not quite English. https://www.irishpost.com/comment/plastic-paddy-myth-complexity-irish-181351
Mind you, 6 years seems a long time ago now. https://www.irishpost.com/news/gerry-conlon-was-guilty-of-being-irish-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time-30085
Oh yes, and despite the wonders of modern telecommunications, we clearly haven’t spoken up to our (many) cousins in America. https://twitter.com/ProLifeAll/status/1267208815856025605?s=20
