Picture by Stratagem Picture by Learning… I saw an old friend on the TV last night: Sean Farren. He was a former grandee of the SDLP and a former colleague of mine at the Ulster University. I found him a pleasant, agreeable man, easy to work with. I can think of only […]
October, 2015
Like some mushroom? It’ll cost, mind
When I was a child in the 1950s, I used to have a recurring nightmare. I would be standing beside someone, usually a family member, staring at the horizon. Then a huge mushroom cloud would show, first grey, then pink, then red, and my insides would melt in fear. They’d exploded the atomic bomb. The […]