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Needless Restrictions Remain on Gay Blood Donors

Michael McFarland Campbell

Sadly this policy is not being followed by the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in the Northern Ireland Executive. Pressure is still needed here so that he actually follows the advice that has been given. It would be helpful if those reporting the lifting of the ban in Great Britain would refer to it as that – as this part of the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) very much still does have a ban.Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Continue reading Needless Restrictions Remain on Gay Blood Donors

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Vivat Regina, Vivat Regina Elizabetha!

Michael McFarland Campbell

  Today is the fifty-ninth anniversary of the Accession of Our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth II. Today it was that the sad news was published everywhere that   THE KING IS DEAD In the words of Pathé And so it was that on the sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two that Our late Most Gracious Sovereign King George the Sixth died and our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth the Second was proclaimed Queen. Upon the intimation that our late Most Gracious Sovereign King George the Sixth had died in his sleep … Continue reading Vivat Regina, Vivat Regina Elizabetha!

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With the Coming of Christ, God will be seen by men

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There is one God, who by his Word and Wisdom made and ordered all things. His Word is our Lord Jesus Christ who in these last times became a man among men, that he might unite the end with the beginning, that is, Man with God. Therefore the prophets who received from this same Word their prophetic gift, proclaimed his advent in the flesh, by which was effected the mingling and uniting of God and man according to the Father’s pleasure. For the Word of God foretold from the beginning that God would be seen by men and would live … Continue reading With the Coming of Christ, God will be seen by men

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The Ready Brek effect takes off in Fermanagh schools

Michael McFarland Campbell

A new approach to road safety Reflective clothing built into their school uniform Most school uniforms are usually made with dark colours, often black. The re-designed clothing is making pupils brighter than ever. Three schools in County Fermanagh have introduced the new uniforms, after a double tragedy when two teenagers were killed walking home from school. It has been described as the ‘Ready Brek effect’, a reference to the 1980s breakfast cereal advertisements which showed young people walking to school with a permanent afterglow having eaten the cereal. – reports Mark Simpson of the BBC Continue reading The Ready Brek effect takes off in Fermanagh schools

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Student Broad Left tries to interfere and gets it so wrong

Michael McFarland Campbell

After seeing and sharing a post about the NUS President closing registrations for a Black students’ event in London, I looked further at what Student Broad Left are about. I found the following sentence. Justice for Ireland: for equality, civil rights and a just peace. For the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Support for Irish self-determination and to bring an end to Britain’s role in that country. I don’t know which Good Friday Agreement they were reading – but it does not call for an end to Britain’s role in Ireland. It agrees that both HM Government in … Continue reading Student Broad Left tries to interfere and gets it so wrong

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a letter to the future

Michael McFarland Campbell

I’m writing this now to make sure our children have a chance of growing up in a world worth living in.

Today there’s still time to save nature.

If we act now, our children may yet be able to share their world with sparrows and polar bears, eagles and tigers. There’s still a chance that they’ll inherit a world where the engines of life – the air, seas, rivers and forests – are healthy. Where bluebell woods and rainforests won’t be lost forever. Continue reading “a letter to the future”

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If you’re gay, then you’re gay… thank you to Keith

Michael McFarland Campbell

Welcome to the blogosphere to Keith McGrellis a fellow Liberal Democrat in Northern Ireland. I have known Keith for some years through the Northern Ireland political scene, and am very pleased that he has ventured out into the Northern Ireland blogosphere. This is a courageous first post and as another gay man living and working in the city of Belfast, and campaigning within the NI political scene, I am deeply humbled by Keith’s courage to come out in public when so many others have shied away from this. For me, this tops off one of the most positive days and … Continue reading If you’re gay, then you’re gay… thank you to Keith

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the ballot – and second preference drawn

Michael McFarland Campbell

A successful evening was had at the first Fairer Votes Belfast event at the North Down and Strangford Alliance Associations’ Table Quiz at the CIYMS Clubhouse in East Belfast. We’ve signed up some volunteers. Although the Fairer Votes Belfast team didn’t come first in the quiz, we didn’t come last either. read the rest on Fairer Votes Belfast Continue reading 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the ballot – and second preference drawn

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a shot across the party’s bows

Michael McFarland Campbell

My post last week Lib Dem Ministers you’ve betrayed our party’s beliefs enough has made it into the Golden Dozen at number 4. Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 193rd weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (24th — 30th October, 2010), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. The warning shot has been fired – let’s hope that our Ministers will take notice. Continue reading a shot across the party’s bows

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