Val
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Val
@val_83d
🇮🇪 I wrote The Line Forty-Nine, a non-fiction critique of Canadian society 🇨🇦 Read here https://t.co/gOxSJmkeNJ
Island of Ireland 🇮🇪 Katılım Aralık 2025
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@bfchild66 All good here John. Recommend you line up the New Wave for your music later!
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@val_83d Hope you well Val , not engaged with you much recently , having said that Ive not been on here much recently
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@liley_william @RachelMoiselle @DerekPederson3 And also - far, FAR more seriously - Shamima Begum, persecuted by the British State for her actions as a stupid teenager. .@RachelMoiselle are you familiar with the case?
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@RachelMoiselle Some teenagers are good. Some are bad.
The commonality is that they are minors.
Whatever I believe of Rama Duwaji should be based on her conduct as an adult.
@DerekPederson3
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I don’t agree with the excavation into Mamdani’s wife social media accounts, but is that the truth?
I set up this account as a teenager. I can’t remember everything I have written from 2012 until now, but I am 100% sure no post of mine contains any racial/homophobic slurs or expressions of support for terrorism.
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan
The banal truth is if you oppp dumped on any teenager's social media activity, you'd find something dubious. That's why the cancel culture mentality is so hideous. God knows what a Washington Free Beacon and ex-Post reporter was up to on his personal time back then.
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@EdEddzzz @afneil @ClarkeMicah But in fact Britain's WW1 debt to the US remains unpaid *to this day*, as I understand it?
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@val_83d @afneil @ClarkeMicah The depression arrived and everyone was asking for debt holidays. Hoover realised insisting on repayment would only make things worse. So, the UK couldn't insist on repayment of its debt, when it wasn't repaying the US. It's been a subject no one talks about for nearly a century.
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The Marshall Plan was a grant. We never had to pay it off. The war loans were loans (clue in the name). We had to pay them off.
Gary Prince@PrinceGaryloki
@BrianStoreyUK @Bakkies_Basson @afneil Don't forget the Marshall Plan which we only finished paying off a few years ago. It's all about the money to them
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@EdEddzzz @afneil .@ClarkeMicah to your knowledge is the above the underlying reason the UK defaulted on its WW1 debt to the US?
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Looking forward to watching France vs England at the Stade de France. It’s a great stadium, was there in November, and I fancy Les Bleus to score a 6 Nations Championship! 🏉🏉🏉 Am sure it will be a great game!
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@KellyMatshall Fantastic test. Commiserations to Scotland - that final scoreline is a bit harsh on them to be fair.
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@val_83d @Saraita101 Oh that's a great comfort to people who are working minimum wage jobs having to find somewhere to live in Belfast. Could be worse!
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@val_83d nobody trying to get private rented accommodation cares because it doesn't matter
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The actual face of war, rather than the computer game version favoured by the White House:
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah
An extract from that fine book ‘ Covenant with Death’ :
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@RabbyjohnRh @bfchild66 1 report? Actually multiple reports said that. All wrong. They were drinking in Kelly's Cellars with 3 male republicans. One had previously been in the British Army, and it was his knowledge of military discipline and training which put the Scots at ease. youtu.be/_2rUxocOSEA?is…
YouTube
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Lest We Forget 🙏
IRA Honey Trap Killings – Despicable Murder of three young off – duty Scottish Soldiers’ 1971 |
Pte John McCaig Aged 17,
Pte Joseph McCaig Aged 18
Pte Dougald McCaughey, 23
belfastchildis.com/2015/11/10/ira…
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@abrahamson_ed You’ll always be Irish Ed because you spend so much of your time giving out about the place. If ever there was a national trait - that’s it.
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Watching the Irish National anthem at Aviva.. Childhood memories flood back, always at the matches at Lansdowne Road with my Dad. Singing my heart out.
Today, I feel lost, my passport Irish, my birth certificate Irish, yet hard to feel part of it.
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