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Shambolic
As I predicted (no skill involved by the way) the multiple flights, vast expenditure on the Hastings Hotel Group and voluminous generation of hot air over the last few months in Northern Ireland...
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Haass-Been
Richard N Haass (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Richard Haass, the self-styled diplomat, needs an easy-win. He is somewhat discredited on the international geopolitical stage – especially after he argued...
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Haass Summary: A Ministry for Silly Walks
And now for something completely different? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The default position for any programme of “diplomacy” is to recommend a new body or institution. This is the diplomatic equivalent...
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My Debate with Sammy Wilson
So is it a good idea that the government is helping low-income families to get onto the property ladder? Or is Help-to-Buy going to cause a new property bubble? Listen to this debate between me and...
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Peace Leeches and the Haass Talks
Meghan O’Sullivan – Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and Head of the Belfer Center’s Geopolitics of Energy Project They abound. Peace...
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Yellow Bellied Bastard
Ken (Lord) Maginnis has a foul temper. But, today, he paid the price for that temper and was found guilty of assaulting a motorist in a road-rage incident. The Peer of the Realm admitted to swearing...
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Stupid and Stupider
Alex Kane summed it up pretty well in less than 140 characters in a Twitter post: Loyalist rioters on Friday in Belfast. IRA celebrants in Castlederg on Sunday. Both stupid. Both offensive. And both...
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John Lewis Buys Bow Street Mall?
John Lewis taking over Bow Street Mall? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There’s a rumour flying around that John Lewis – thwarted in its attempt to develop a major store at Sprucefield because of Northern...
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Least Contentious Parades: No Parades
So…more riots, drunken yobs, water cannon and MLAs knocked unconscious with hurled bricks. There’s an easy way to avoid this. Let’s not have “parades”. None. Nada. For as long as I’ve had the ability...
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Centre of Peace?
Does Jeffrey Donaldson seriously think a Peace Centre on the site of a notorious prison is a good idea? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jeffrey Donaldson, the Jesus-fish wearing DUP MP for Lagan Valley,...
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Rip-Off Quantified: Peter and Marty’s Rio Trip
The Pete & Marty spendfest started in São Paulo, Brazil (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I blogged a few weeks ago about the likely extent of the squandering of public money represented by Peter and...
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Integrated Education: Where are the Disabled?
Integrated Education? Not applicable to disabled children. A Guest post by Bernie Drayne Let’s talk about integrated education – Northern Ireland style. Shared future, shared education – yes these are...
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Shared Future Dystopia
education (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) The recent report on ‘shared education’ was more of a tirade against academic selection. I blogged about that a few days ago. However, I wanted to address the...
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Ulster’s Tribal Elders Do Rio
Peter and Marty do really, really important business stuff in Brazil. So Peter and Marty are now on an ‘economic development’ trip to Rio – after visiting Sao Paulo and Brasilia. This is the latest...
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Miscarriage: The God Abortion?
How many babies are killed by the Pro-Lifers’ God? Edwin Poots and his “Pro-Life” campaigner friends make a very big issue of the fact that Northern Ireland has a near-consensus on abortion. Yesterday...
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UKIP and Punctuation
UKIP Lagan Valley recently started following me on Twitter. This provoked me to have a look at the Party’s local web site. Sad, I know. But I was just being curious. The UKIP NI copy-writer doesn’t...
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Nolan Show: Water Charges
I was on the Nolan Show earlier discussing the fact that the Assembly has agreed to (again) defer water charges – preferring to absorb the cost into the DRD budget – and failing to (once again) make...
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Pro-Union and Progressive
I very much welcome the announcement from Basil McCrea and John McCallister that they are to establish a new pro-Union and progressive political party. Choice is good. And it’s good that the voters of...
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Unionism: No Policy Needed
Mike Nesbitt doesn’t think the voters of Northern Ireland want any policies.(Photo credit: Wikipedia) In what, surely, must be one of the most depressing reads, Sam McBride’s interview of UUP “leader”...
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Irish Nationalism and Ulster Unionism are Near-Dead
Given the amount of noise created by Sinn Fein one could be forgiven for believing that they might have some type of political point to make. Along with their brothers in arms they used to condone...
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