Should the BBC be going to Specsavers? I was listening to BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Good Morning Ulster’ (a lot of Ulsters in there) this morning and they were reporting on the rioting at Ardoyne shops last night. A group of people blocked the road in advance of the Orangemen coming back and parading through […]
Author Jude Collins
"It’s absolutely unbelievable" – too right, Missus
“It’s absolutely unbelievable what happens here over the Twelfth period”. You might think those were the words of an indignant nationalist or Catholic, fed up to the back teeth with the 3,000+ Orange marches that are held here every year, not to mention the bonfires and drinking and tricolour-burning that form a backdrop to all […]
“It’s absolutely unbelievable” – too right, Missus
“It’s absolutely unbelievable what happens here over the Twelfth period”. You might think those were the words of an indignant nationalist or Catholic, fed up to the back teeth with the 3,000+ Orange marches that are held here every year, not to mention the bonfires and drinking and tricolour-burning that form a backdrop to all […]
Sick or swish?
Why did Iris Robinson leave office? That’s the £840,000 question. The reflex response is to focus on the giant sum and to link it with the Swish Family Robinson image, but that’d be unfair. Mrs Robinson will get her money (i) because she has served a specific amount of time in Westminster and at Stormont […]
Sick or swish?
Why did Iris Robinson leave office? That’s the £840,000 question. The reflex response is to focus on the giant sum and to link it with the Swish Family Robinson image, but that’d be unfair. Mrs Robinson will get her money (i) because she has served a specific amount of time in Westminster and at Stormont […]
Man on the run
Life imitating art, eh? A crazed killer on the run, leaving messages saying he WILL have revenge ‘cos his girl done him wrong with a cop. Pictures of the wanted man, biceps bulging and eyes glittering with menace. Dozens of heavily-armed police officers – one-tenth of the entire armed police force in Britain – armoured […]
Man on the run
Life imitating art, eh? A crazed killer on the run, leaving messages saying he WILL have revenge ‘cos his girl done him wrong with a cop. Pictures of the wanted man, biceps bulging and eyes glittering with menace. Dozens of heavily-armed police officers – one-tenth of the entire armed police force in Britain – armoured […]
Free Degrees
If you check the papers these days, you’ll notice they’re full of young and not-so-young people wearing dark gowns and funny hats, grinning with delight. Beside them family members, grinning even more widely. Good for them. When I had students, I’d duck attending the graduation ceremonies (the essence of tedium and lies) and emerge to […]
Free Degrees
If you check the papers these days, you’ll notice they’re full of young and not-so-young people wearing dark gowns and funny hats, grinning with delight. Beside them family members, grinning even more widely. Good for them. When I had students, I’d duck attending the graduation ceremonies (the essence of tedium and lies) and emerge to […]
You wouldn’t do it to a dog, would you?
OK. Some questions for you, prompted by a TV programme I saw last night (about which more later): Q1: Is a dog for life or just for Christmas? Q2: What would you say about people who get a dog and then neglect it –don’t walk it or make sure it’s properly fed and housed, don’t […]