There’s an article headed ‘Alex Kane interviews Mike Nesbitt: Confident UUP leader offers olive branch to nationalism’ in yesterday’s News Letter. Well now, you say. An olive branch from Mike? I thought he’d gone all right-wing and big on unionist solidarity, not pacts with the SDLP? Well if you read the article you can judge […]
July, 2014
NO MORE HEROES ? by Harry McAvinchey
I’ve been able to see most of my musical heroes…well except the ones who’d already left this mortal coil before I realised they’d be worth the watching. I’d love to have seen Billie Holliday or Duke Ellington for instance and I missed the Beatles because they decided to quit touring in my teenage years and […]
Rolf Harris and that joke
There was an interesting moment on BBC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster’s ‘Good Morning Ulster” this morning. Noel Thompson played a clip of a live 1969 performance by Rolf Harris in front of a giggling audience, which Noel said hinted at the darker side of the man. The clip consisted of Rolf using two voices, one deep […]