You are getting £63 quid of your electricity bill next month….
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Thanks to the Great Orange One, it’s going to be an expensive winter for all of us, with petrol predicted to hit £2 a litre in the next few weeks, gas up 20% and home heating oil up 100% and …
AI: Ireland’s Next Great Engine of Jobs and Growth…
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Over the last week, there have been genuine concerns about the safety of increasingly powerful AI and, at the same time, ongoing scaremongering about AI causing mass job losses in the future. Whilst it is absolutely essential that AI does …
All support acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour…
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From the Guardian: All four supporting acts for upcoming dates of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour have withdrawn in solidarity with fellow opening act Macklemore, as backlash grows against his removal from the tour over onstage comments in support of Palestine. …
Canada could become first ‘associate member’ of the EU…
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From the Guardian: Ursula von der Leyen’s dramatic offer to open the gate to Canada to become the EU’s first ever associate member (9:54) cannot be underestimated in political and trade significance. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney shakes hands with …
Noah Donohoe inquest verdict: jury deliver their unanimous findings to the coroner
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It has probably been the most high-profile story we have never covered on Slugger. The reason being that any discussion of the topic automatically got into conspiracy theories that I felt were hurtful to his family and friends. It was …
The lamentable response to the Robert Hamill Inquiry…
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Bridgewater is a Slugger reader from Belfast. The Robert Hamill Inquiry was published yesterday. The 25 year old Catholic father of three was viciously murdered by a group of Protestants in the centre of Portadown in 1997, simply because he …
“His father’s illness was so advanced that he did not know his son had become prime minister…”
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It was sad to read about the death of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s father, from the BBC: Prime Minister Andy Burnham has cancelled official engagements on Monday and Tuesday following the death of his father Roy, who had Alzheimer’s. He …
Scottish, Welsh, and Sinn Féin leaders push for independence to break up the UK…
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The rest of the leaders of the UK regions are ganging up on poor aul Blighty. They meet in Cardiff today to discuss their plans. From the BBC: The first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have begun meeting …
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.