Outlaw Ocean: Disturbing Revelations About the Agencies That Hire in the Third World

November 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Our contact at the New York Times, Ian Urbina, a campaigning journalist with whom we have been liaising for sometime over the situation of mariners and the labour conditions they have to endure has mailed again with the

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More Manx ‘Gas’ In Tynwald

November 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE ‘Motion on a charges moratorium is needed then at least people would know who the real bastards in Tynwald are!’ Today the issue of Manx Gas and its charging will surface once again in the House of Keys

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Bugaled Breizh Belated Reply from Coroner

November 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Breton Motor Fishing Vessel (MFV) Bugaled Breizh sank suddenly off the Lizard in January 2004 all hands on board were lost. The sinking has been surrounded by controversy ever since not least because a large NATO exercise

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Social responsibility – Bloody Hypocrites!

November 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The first thing to check is that it’s not the 1st of April when you see an item on Manx Radio business news which opens: “Social responsibility will be high on the agenda at an international summit for

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The Bombs of Beaufort Dyke

November 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The personal column OUTSIDE LEFT I write for Isle of Man Newspapers (Manx Independent) this week was about Sellafield and John Dunster it was entitled Radiation Guinea Pigs (although the title I submitted was ‘The Experiment’). In the

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The Experiment

November 9, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There are aspects of the British nuclear industry that are like a black comedy. A few years ago I learned that a UK train-spotters magazine openly published details of transports of nuclear waste. The guide called ‘Freightmaster’ provided

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Happy Birthday Wings!

November 9, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The pro Scottish Independence blog ‘Wings over Scotland’ is four years old today. By its own admission ‘Wings’ which started out just intending to be an occasional observation on the unfolding scene in Scotland has turned into once

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‘Banks’ That Like to Say Yes’!

November 9, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Joy and progress can soon dissipate certainly in world of Isle of Man offshore finance. Yesterday it was announced that the Isle of Man had been removed from a blacklist in the US (District of Columbia), apparently we

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BBC ‘Dodge the Licence’ Questions

November 9, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The BBC detests a TV license dodger that’s why they unleash their franchise operation, TV Licensing, to hound people. In turn TV Licensing has become so unpopular that the public have begun to turn on its staff (see

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Man: Juan He’s the ‘Forces Champion’ But is He The Police Forces Champion?

November 6, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE One of the most eerie interviews I have seen this year was when the Manx Chief Constable discussed his annual report and was interviewed by MTTV. Sitting in the background in the corner silently watching was the Department

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