'If I had to choose a Queen song that sums up the political situation in NI, it would be Too Much Love Will Kill You... people here are too passionate, they can't see beyond their own entrenched position' BelfastTelegraph.co.uk In the months after Queen frontman Freddie Mercury passed away, five Lurgan school friends decided to keep the music alive in Northern Ireland and formed a tribute band in honour of their idols. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/if-i-had-to-choose-a-queen-song-that-sums-up-the-political-situation-in-ni-it-would-be-too-much-love-will-kill-you-people-here-are-too-passionate-they-cant-see-beyond-their-own-entrenched-position-37463243.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article37463553.ece/9a845/AUTOCROP/h342/nday_Life_Featu%202.jpg Email In the months after Queen frontman Freddie Mercury passed away, five Lurgan school friends decided to keep the music alive in Northern Ireland and formed a tribute band in honour of their idols. … [Read more...] about ‘If I had to choose a Queen song that sums up the political situation in NI, it would be Too Much Love Will Kill You… people here are too passionate, they can’t see beyond their own entrenched position’
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Hugh Owens has won his divorce battle in the Supreme Court but he is a loser in love
“MATE. It’s over. She doesn’t love you any more. Time to gather what’s left of your dignity and walk away.” All of the above is exactly what friends and family of Hugh Owens should have told him when his fed-up wife Tini wanted to call it a day and filed for divorce. Instead, 80-year-old Hugh has fought tooth and nail to hang on to the marriage, being dragged all the way to the Supreme Court, where this week a group of sombre legal eagles “reluctantly” declared that Tini would have to stay shackled to her husband. I simply cannot understand why anyone would be forced to use the full might of the law and spend a fortune on lawyers’ fees to escape a relationship that has so obviously shrivelled up and died. And still fail. Tini was desperate to get out of this marriage and move on with her life. The couple have been married for 40 years, have two grown-up children and enjoyed a successful business and extremely well-off lifestyle. Tini, a … [Read more...] about Hugh Owens has won his divorce battle in the Supreme Court but he is a loser in love
Marxism didn’t die. It’s alive and well and living among us
Peter Hitchens 16 June 2018 9:00 AM 16 June 2018 9:00 AM Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Whatsapp I remember the autumn day in 1990 when they came to cart away the large hammer and sickle outside my Moscow block of flats. It was about the size of a cow and made out of a gritty grey metal alloy which had, like almost everything in the USSR, never looked new or clean. Once, these objects had been all over the city. Now they were vanishing. Nobody else seemed especially interested in its departure, probably because there were — more excitingly — eggs on sale down the street. A few weeks later, I would watch the Soviet Army’s last Revolution Day parade trundle through Red Square. A few months after that I would see the litter bins of Moscow fill with burning Communist party membership cards, and the tearing down of many of the great idols of Marxism-Leninism from their plinths. It was a time full of images, which produced many lovely … [Read more...] about Marxism didn’t die. It’s alive and well and living among us
112 Russian writers ranging from great, to absolutely freaking great
112. Boris Akunin (b. 1956) Boris Akunin / TASS / Sergei Belyakov We're putting this great author on the honorable 112th place not because we like him less than the others, but because he admits that he's not a writer but a belletrist. His real name is Grigory Chkhartishvili and he's the ultra-popular Russian detective writer. Several of his novels, set mostly in the late 19th and early 20th century czarist Russia, have been adapted and turned into full-length feature films that were box office hits. His main hero, detective Erast Fandorin, is a Russian Sherlock Holmes, and one of the most charismatic heroes in modern literature. Another of Akunin’s project is, “The History of the Russian State,” a multi-volume work that seeks to understand why Russia has remained stable in the face of so many revolts and revolutions. His pen name first appeared as B. Akunin, which has several … [Read more...] about 112 Russian writers ranging from great, to absolutely freaking great
Meet Microsoft’s Cindy Rose: UK tech’s most powerful woman
Nothing much throws the most powerful woman on the British tech scene: not even dressing up as a cartoon bloodhound. Cindy Rose is now the UK boss of the $700 billion Microsoft empire but along the way — at the start of her earlier career with Disney — she had to don a huge Pluto the dog suit and hug strangers at the entertainment giant’s Anaheim Disneyland park in California. At least it beats the awkward ball-throwing exercises or dreary training videos of typical corporate inductions. “I loved it”, she laughs. “There’s no better way to understand the connection the brand has with consumers because of the outpouring of love that you get. But I did have my share of teasing.” That said, if we’re talking Disney films, the American describes herself as a modern-day Pocahontas; like the Native American character, she crossed the Atlantic and fell in love with a Brit. The wannabe figure skater followed up early career spells in … [Read more...] about Meet Microsoft’s Cindy Rose: UK tech’s most powerful woman