OK – let me put my cards on the table: I like Jim Allister. He’s a smart guy and he doesn’t mind swimming, as he sees it, against the tide. And while he does talk much of the time in complete sentences – not necessarily a good thing, despite what your teacher told you – […]
March, 2012
RUC AA name change and how Jim Allister is feeling
OK – let me put my cards on the table: I like Jim Allister. He’s a smart guy and he doesn’t mind swimming, as he sees it, against the tide. And while he does talk much of the time in complete sentences – not necessarily a good thing, despite what your teacher told you – […]
Gerry McGeough- has he got something to "whinge and whine" about?
Gerry McGeough – now there’s a name to set people’s teeth on edge. If you’re a unionist, you may think he’s a very lucky man. After all, he did attack and unsuccessfully try to kill UDR man Sammy Brush in 1981. On Friday last Mr Justice Treacy told him he’d have to serve his two […]
Gerry McGeough- has he got something to “whinge and whine” about?
Gerry McGeough – now there’s a name to set people’s teeth on edge. If you’re a unionist, you may think he’s a very lucky man. After all, he did attack and unsuccessfully try to kill UDR man Sammy Brush in 1981. On Friday last Mr Justice Treacy told him he’d have to serve his two […]
Farewell, Tom; hello…oblivion?
And so, as the sun sinks slowly in the West, the figure of Tom Elliott rides off towards the horizon, growing smaller and smaller, until even the faintest twangy echo of his accent has been washed clean of the Ulster Unionist Party. Yes, he had many of the traditional unionist virtues that made the party […]
Farewell, Tom; hello…oblivion?
And so, as the sun sinks slowly in the West, the figure of Tom Elliott rides off towards the horizon, growing smaller and smaller, until even the faintest twangy echo of his accent has been washed clean of the Ulster Unionist Party. Yes, he had many of the traditional unionist virtues that made the party […]
Why Pat Rabbitte is really worried
Pat Rabbitte, late of the Workers’ Party and presently part of the very unpopular Labour Party, is worried. No, not about the slump in his party’s fortunes – they have another four years to address that – but about the effect of the social media on society. Pat’s concern came off the back of that […]
Why Pat Rabbitte is really worried
Pat Rabbitte, late of the Workers’ Party and presently part of the very unpopular Labour Party, is worried. No, not about the slump in his party’s fortunes – they have another four years to address that – but about the effect of the social media on society. Pat’s concern came off the back of that […]
Peter and Fergus – telling it like it is?
There are two commentators in this morning’s papers, both talking about the same thing: the coming referendum in the south of Ireland. In the Financial Times, Peter Sutherland says that the need for the vote springs from a clash between economic autonomy for the member states of the EU and the strengthening of the euro. […]
Peter and Fergus – telling it like it is?
There are two commentators in this morning’s papers, both talking about the same thing: the coming referendum in the south of Ireland. In the Financial Times, Peter Sutherland says that the need for the vote springs from a clash between economic autonomy for the member states of the EU and the strengthening of the euro. […]