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The IRA (Irish Republican Army) managed to kill over 1,700 whilst waging was on the British in an attempt to create a United Ireland. What did Britain do to bring this to and end? There were a great many conversations both official and not behind the scenes with their political masters, Sinn Fein trying to broker a deal. What did Britain not do? Britain did not argue that they had a right to defend themselves, that all those living in Northern Ireland must travel to the south and then send in the bombers to flatten Northern Ireland. Why did the British government not openly just bomb places where they thought terrorists might be? Well, because terrorists look like the rest of us, they do not have any unique features which makes them easy to spot. There were some incursions into strongholds but they were generally a bit of a disaster. What you see here is what the IRA very often looked like. Particularly they’d look like this at the funerals of their comrades. Not that the civilian...

Religion, faith, belief or, whatever we want to call it, well, it needs looking at again don’t you think? “In the Beginning” Well, I guess different faith system believe different versions of ‘the beginning’ but, even so, it seems a good place to start! In the belief system I was thrown into as a child it was all very simple. It was never discussed, it was always these absolute facts: God created man, man got bored so he created woman. Woman was weak and easily influenced and did the only thing God had, for reasons no one can fathom, told them not to do so, God cast them out. Sure, that’s not quite any text I have read but then, let’s get something very clear here just adopting a little logic shall we. God did not write the Old Testament, neither did Adam and neither did Eve so, someone who was, without any doubt whatsoever, not there, did write it, indeed, several different people. So, who wrote the early bible? Safe to say, it was not the kids...