Calling it ‘St Patty’s Day’ Other than people mistakenly thinking that the Republic of Ireland is part of Britain, there are few things which annoy Irish people more than people calling their national holiday ‘Patty’s day.’ The progenitors of this cringe-inducing phrase are largely American, and despite years of overwrought protests from the Emerald Isle, […]
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‘Dangerous & disproportionate’: Sputnik shutdown in Turkey slammed by OSCE, rights activists
April 15th, 2016 Awake Goy
“This blocking is only the latest in a series of issues that I have voiced over the years with regard to freedom of expression on the internet in Turkey,” the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatovic, said in a statement. Russia’s Sputnik news website abruptly […]