Anurag Deb: Direct Rule in Northern Ireland and the Power to Make Irrational Laws
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The townland of Carrickmore in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland is the ancestral home of legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. It is also near an ancient and beautifully preserved Neolithic court tomb, excavated between 1979 and 1982. Carrickmore was at the heart of a different funerary matter when, on 3 February 2023, the Northern Ireland High Court handed down a judgment with potentially wide consequences for many laws which govern everyday life in the jurisdiction. This post examines the judgment in Re Oliver Hughes’ application for judicial review [2023] NIKB 5 in terms of the administration of Northern Ireland after the suspension and abolition of devolution in 1973, until its restoration in 1999 – the longest period of direct rule since the jurisdiction’s birth.
The facts
Oliver Hughes was interested in establishing a crematorium in the area around Carrickmore. The problem is that crematoria are regulated by the…
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European summer droughts since 2015 ‘most severe in centuries’, but multi-year droughts also happened in the past
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Freighter passing a sandbank on the Rhine river [image credit: worldcargonews.com]
Mixed messages from climate research here. In between evidence-free waffle about ‘potential’ human influence, they report that severe drought spells are nothing new in Europe, implying climate cycles of some sort. This means attribution of such drought to human causes is debatable, as the article admits.
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The 2015–2018 summer droughts have been exceptional in large parts of Western and Central Europe over the last 400 years, in terms of the magnitude of drought conditions.
This indicates an influence of man-made global warming, claims Phys.org.
However, multi-year droughts have occurred frequently in the 17th and 18th century, although not as severe.
This is the result of a new study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.
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The Ghost Of The Lusitania – Russia Takes Erzurum I THE GREAT WAR – Week 82
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell (1927)
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of religion
How science is
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in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
John Tyler: The Most Hated President of the 19th Century
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in economic history, politics - USA
THE FIFTH ACT: AMERICA’S END IN AFGHANISTAN by Elliot Ackerman
17 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
Of all the decisions made by President Biden during his first two years in office the most frequently criticized by both Democrats and Republicans was his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. Biden has wanted to end the American role in Afghanistan since his time as Vice-President thus the decision was not surprising. After two decades of war Biden had enough of the corruption, duplicity, and the lack of will to fight on the part of various Afghan governments to defeat the Taliban. It was not so much Biden’s decision to withdraw, but how it came about and how it was implemented resulting in negative repercussions for American foreign policy that has drawn so much criticism.
One of the first books to emerge since the end of American participation in Afghanistan is Elliot Ackerman’s THE FIFTH ACT: AMERICA’S END…
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Ulysses S. Grant: Victor of the American Civil War
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in defence economics, economic history, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: American Civil War
A Brief History of Cartography and maps
17 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: maps
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