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An Australian Coup Part 2 | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. An Australian Coup Part 2. This article was published in. On June 19 2015. Before Whitlam, the Australian people had been electing the “right people,” namely the Liberal-National Country Party Coalition headed for many years by Robert Menzies. Menzies was always happy to do the bidding of the US and the UK. He once said, “A sick feeling of repugnance grows in me as I near Australia.”. Kerr had longstanding ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was a...

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Chuckle Muscles Part Two | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Chuckle Muscles Part Two. This article appeared in. On July 22 2015. It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going. Mona Lott, a character on the 1940s radio show ITMA (It’s that Man Again). Legal scholar and behavioral economist Cass Sunstein wrote in the. New York Review of Books. In 1974, economist Richard Easterlin published a paper, Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Above a low level of income, Easterlin found no correlation between happiness an...

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Ad Hominem, Mr Corbyn | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Ad Hominem, Mr Corbyn. This article appeared in. On Tuesday August 4 2015. Nevertheless, I have a big problem with Corbyn. It is the history of Islington Council and child abuse. John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, wrote an open letter to Corbyn about this and said that Corbyn’s behaviour in relation to the Islington care homes scandal made him unfit to be leader of the Labour Party. It was Hodge’s successor as council leader, Derek Sawyer, who ...

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Chuckle Muscles Part One | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Chuckle Muscles Part One. This article appeared in. On Monday July 6 2015. More than his Share? 8221; Dodd replied, “The notes are very light, M’Lord.”. Even at the age of 87, Dodd still follows a punishing work schedule. During the 1960s he earned a place in the. Guinness Book of Records. Another Liverpudlian, John Lennon, sang that happiness was a warm gun but Mark Chapman shot him dead. What is happiness and how can we measure it? Many league tables at...

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Getting Death off our Roads Part 2 | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Getting Death off our Roads Part 2. This article appeared in. On Tuesday May 26 2015.The article was illustrated with this picture. I am not sure if the red stuff is blood or betel spit. In a previous article in these pages, I wrote about the problem of killer buses in Sri Lanka and canvassed the opinions of Sri Lankans home and abroad. Testing for Drugs and Alcohol. Five years on, what has Wijeratne done to clean up his members’ act? Some agreed with a p...

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Elders Part Two | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. This article appeared in. On Tuesday July 2 2015 under the title ‘Betrayal of the Elderly. Professor Indralal De Silva, Senior Professor of Demography, University of Colombo, estimates that 25 percent of the population of Sri Lanka will be over 60 years of age by 2040. He argued that unless our development process is improved and sustained we would have a lower level of income to support this aging population. Abuse in Sri Lanka. If you search the interne...

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Elders Part One | Padraig Colman

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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. This article appeared in. On Thursday June 25 2015. Population ageing arises from two demographic effects: increasing longevity and declining fertility. In all human history, the world has never seen as aged a population as currently exists today. This is the case for every country in the world except the 18 countries designated as “demographic outliers”. There has to be a worry that businesses providing care for profit might put profit before care and th...

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THE WRITER ME: June 2015

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Crime and spy thriller author. and a few other things besides. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Writing for Beginners (3). See What Floats To The Surface. One of the more common questions asked by writers starting out in this business is,. 8216;I’ve got a problem: with so many ideas whirling around in my head, how do I settle on the right one? Call that a problem? There are writers out there who’d give their granny’s right arm to be so discombobulated! Picture if you will, the mind of your average writer (and for t...

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THE WRITER ME: March 2015

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Crime and spy thriller author. and a few other things besides. Thursday, 12 March 2015. New two-book thriller deal. Back in January I mentioned that in the wake of finding my Inspector Lucas Rocco. Series dropped (French detective based in France in the 1960s), I had written two new books. One was. Due out 30th April in hardback - Seven House), and is the sequel to. Both of which follow the work of spy protector, Marc Portman. The second book I called. And was something a little different. And that's the...