It’s funny the things that set our blood simmering. I was online the other day, trying to enter for the Dublin Half-Marathon later this month. I got to a Required slot that demanded “Nationality”. Nothing wrong with that, except that it wouldn’t let me write “Irish”; I had to choose from a long list on […]
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Why no British political parties (worth talking about) here?
A thought struck me the other day: why do we have unionist parties here? After all, we know that David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage all believe in the United Kingdom. And unionist leaders repeatedly insist on the degree to which we in the north are an integral part of the UK. So why […]