Why Mango Loves Dublin
... for anyone that needs a reminder of why they love our capital
Mango is one of Dublin's premier wordsmiths. Capable of 140bpm tales of backdoor raves, Mango is also perfectly at home as a spoken word act with a penchant for getting to the heart of a story. This piece, recorded for Una Mullaly and Andrea Horan's United Ireland podcast, reminds us of all the minute moments and reasons that make Dublin great. Have a listen to it here:
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— UnitedIrelandPodcast (@united_podcast) June 24, 2019
Simon Kuper on the role Oxford University had on shaping Brexit
... a deep dive into the 3rd level which is intrinsic to British politics
Both Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, the two candidates left for the role of British Prime Minister, went to Oxford. Likewise, 6 of the 7 candidates for the role came from an Oxford background. Simon Kuper's feature is a fascinating investigation into the Oxford University of the 1980s, especially the inner-workings of Boris Johnson's drive to become Student Union President.
Johnson advised aspiring student politicians to assemble “a disciplined and deluded collection of stooges” to get out the vote. “Lonely girls from the women’s colleges” who “back their largely male candidates with a porky decisiveness” were particularly useful... “For these young women, machine politics offers human friction and warmth.”
You can read the full article here.
All of Soupy Norman is available on YouTube
... someone has uploaded all nine episodes of one of Ireland's greatest comedies
The Rubberbandits once tweeted that "to this day I've no idea how RTE let something that good on TV", which says it all about the ingenious nature of Soupy Norman. Our own Mark Farrelly has written about this discovery here, and you can find the playlist of the first series, as well as the Christmas special, below:
