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Howie's Corner: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Then and ..Now?
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Tuesday, 4 August 2015. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Then and .Now? On the way to work this morning I noticed the poster advertising the new The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Movie that is about to hit the screens. I have no idea what this film will be like but I do hope that the remake doesn't bomb like the attempt to do a modern version of The Avengers. There are some things that should be left alone. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And suddenly I felt old! And this isn't the sixties. This evening I had started out thinking ...
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Howie's Corner: Labour's last chance: Vote Liz for Leader, Caroline for Deputy!
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Sunday, 16 August 2015. Labour's last chance: Vote Liz for Leader, Caroline for Deputy! The vote for who leads the Labour Party to victory at the next election has begun. The decision of the Labour Party to allow votes from newly signed up supporters, many of whom have turned out to be opponents of the Labour Party at the last election including members of Left Unity, the Greens and many others on the far-left of British politics may skewer the result. Achieve something or achieve nothing! Warning of ele...
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Howie's Corner: BDS proves itself racist
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Monday, 17 August 2015. BDS proves itself racist. Supporters of the so-called Boycott, Sanction and Divest campaign have clearly "crossed the Rubicon" with their latest attacks on individual Jewish musicians and actresses. The Jerusalem Post. If you plan on going to the Sunsplash Rototom Reggae Festival in Spain this week, you better not speak the language of the Hebrewman. If you do, they might kick you out. The festival’s cancellation of a scheduled August 22 appearance. But also a Jew. One small way t...
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Howie's Corner: Left Unity's "secret trial"
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Saturday, 15 August 2015. Left Unity's "secret trial". The tiny left-wing sect Left Unity founded on the basis of a short film by Ken Loach made the news recently as their ideological founder protested about his members being "witch-hunted" by the Labour Party for signing up as Labour supporters to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Many of them are in the process of being excluded, rightly so as they are after all members of a rival political party. Now remember Left Unity actually had some trouble with some indiv...
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Howie's Corner: Pastors, Hate Preachers and Islamic Student Societies
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Saturday, 1 August 2015. Pastors, Hate Preachers and Islamic Student Societies. A man who described the ISIS controlled city of Mosal as the "most peaceful city in the world", a certain Dr Raied Al-Wazzan of the Belfast Islamic Centre is to be the main prosecution witness against a Christian preacher who described Islam as "satanic" and "a doctrine spawned in hell" on charges relating to sending an electronically offensive message. Yes, there are other things going wrong there. they are murdering peo...
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Howie's Corner: Secular groups write to Nigerian President over blasphemy death sentences
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Sunday, 2 August 2015. Secular groups write to Nigerian President over blasphemy death sentences. Cross-post from the National Secular Society. The National Secular Society has joined other secularist organisations in calling for a full pardon and civil protection for nine people recently sentenced to death by a Sharia court in Nigeria. The so-called 'Kano Nine' were sentenced to death by a sharia court in the Nigerian state of Kano after what the BBC described as a "speedily done" and "secret" trial.
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Howie's Corner: Ecuador should be ashamed of itself
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Ecuador should be ashamed of itself. This mornings papers carried the disturbing news that Julian Assange is about to be (cough) cleared of three sexual assault claims after being hidden in the Ecuadorian embassy all this time. Like everyone else I have no idea whether the allegations against him are true or not but his flight to the embassy says a lot to me. This is due to limitations under Swedish law, which I'm sure he will have been well aware of. The women involved have a ...
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Howie's Corner: Labour's Funeral Race with....Dave Allen?
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015. Labour's Funeral Race with.Dave Allen? Labour's race to self destruction under Corbyn brought this old sketch to mind! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To Howie's Corner. Musings on a Monday. Tony Blair is right, its all Alice in Wonderland. From Howies Archives: Review of Whats Left by Ni. Mark Serwotka correctly excluded from Labour leade. Unions face decline in support whilst Labour implo. Far left group calls for purges after Corbyn wins. BDS proves itself racist.
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Howie's Corner: Labours crisis deepens
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. The Labour Party is vetting membership applications and have so far found over a thousand people who are in the category of "infiltrators". Some like film director Ken Loach claims Labour is running a witch hunt against his party. Members of Left Unity have no place in the Labour Party. Nor do members of the Greens, the TUSC or any other tin pot outfit on the fringes of the Labour and trade union movement. Jeremy Corbyn is certainly the front runner, only Andy Burnham seems to be i...
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Howie's Corner: Time for the middle ground to reassert itself.
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Saturday, 8 August 2015. Time for the middle ground to reassert itself. Two articles caught my attention in today's issue of The Times. The first by columnist Emma Duncan was subtitled "Whether shopping, dining out or finding a job, we've moved into a world of less security, but more opportunity.". Whilst primarily about the usefulness of "pop up shops" it indicates a mindset that I find disturbing that comes from right wing commentators. But no we have seen a drive against trade unions, with facility ti...
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