Rory’s Newsletter
Conservative Irishman living in the UK with an interest in politics. This is a home for Free speech, and lovers of Voltaire, Bishop Berkeley, Edmund Burke, and Eric Hoffer.
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Why Sinn Féin needed Garvaghy Road again (opens the original)
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On Sunday, Northern Ireland’s First Minister joined a blockade of a parade that the Parades Commission and the courts had cleared: 35 Orangemen, no bands, no supporters, first thing in the morning.Rory’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primar
How Fares the Union (opens the original)
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If you read the papers as religiously as I do, it feels as though the Union is under attack almost every day. Scottish devolution gave nationalists a permanent redoubt. When they lose, they can retreat, regroup, rally the faithful and, with Holyrood’s administrative machinery, become almost unkillable. Westminster and the English taxpayer effectively underwrite the nationalist base from which the assault on the Union can be repeatedly mounted.This was not inevitable. Unionists repeatedly warned
Plaid what about Guardsman Paul Fryer? (opens the original)
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On Monday in Cardiff, the leaders of Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Féin signed a memorandum of understanding. Rhun ap Iorwerth and John Swinney, first ministers of Wales and Scotland, stood with Michelle O’Neill, first minister of Northern Ireland, and Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin president. They told the country that Westminster’s time is coming to an end. They called on the British government to “prepare for, plan and facilitate constitutional change.” They rejected “Whitehall’s broken economi
Veteran Story Hour Pilot (opens the original)
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Monday Morning in sleepy Cumnor, in the heart of the Home Counties, 10 miles from Oxford's gleaming spires, in the taproom of the over 300-year-old Vine Inn, in the words of a good friend ‘‘the most based coffee morning inn in England was held. I need to take you back a year or so. Civic Future, which I have the great pleasure of attending two of their yearly weekend retreats, had sent an email to those of us who had signed up to attend their courses and events; somehow mine had gone into my jun
Forget Skynet. Where are the profit margins? (opens the original)
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The machines are not taking over. The bills are. The two stories we are told about AI are not rivals. They are the same management failure.Rory’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="fake-input-wrap
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