What do we normally think about when it comes to making moral decisions? If it is a question of not wishing to be late for work or an appointment then the normative moral axis seems to pivot on the disrespect we do not wish to show to those who would otherwise expect us to be punctual. Yet, perhaps our tardiness bespeaks an altogether different type of morality awaiting to be born. We may be late for such occasions as we are unconsciously striving to be free from the unwanted bonds which such arrangements,...

Most of the non-European immigrants we get in Ireland are already "Westernised" in that vague sense that they wish to step aboard the property express and have all the goodies often denied them in their place of origin. I used to work in a refugee center and irrespective of nationality; Cameroonian, Congolese, Iranian, Egyptian, Muslim/Christian or whatever, it's the base economic determinants - the need for a job and a roof over their head which obliterate any differences that arises...

King Richard III


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Richard had convinced the Dowager Queen Elizabeth to leave her sanctuary at Westminster Abbey, just after Buckingham’s rebellion in towards the end of October 1483. He had promised that he would find her children worthy marriages as ‘gentleman born’. Elizabeth knew that she was trapped in the sanctuary, and knew...