If I had a kennel, it would be filled with underdogs. I’m not sure why, but when I see power being wielded, I find myself tugged to the side of the person on the receiving end. So while I know it’s none of my business who gets elected in Britain, I can’t help but feel […]
Brown study
If I had a kennel, it would be filled with underdogs. I’m not sure why, but when I see power being wielded, I find myself tugged to the side of the person on the receiving end. So while I know it’s none of my business who gets elected in Britain, I can’t help but feel […]
Political parties and window-dressing
I remember 1992. I was in the company of a senior SDLP politician and, as is the way of SDLP politicians, he was ignoring me because there was someone more important in the room. It was a few days before polling day for the Westminster elections and the senior SDLP man was explaining to the […]
Political parties and window-dressing
I remember 1992. I was in the company of a senior SDLP politician and, as is the way of SDLP politicians, he was ignoring me because there was someone more important in the room. It was a few days before polling day for the Westminster elections and the senior SDLP man was explaining to the […]
You mean they don’t head the ball?
Jerome Quinn is mad as hell with the BBC and he’s not taking any more. Well actually, he’s taking a case against them, because he says they discriminated against him on the grounds that he came from a ‘Catholic and irish background’. It’s a tangled tale. Jerome (like myself an Omagh man) claims the BBC, […]
You mean they don’t head the ball?
Jerome Quinn is mad as hell with the BBC and he’s not taking any more. Well actually, he’s taking a case against them, because he says they discriminated against him on the grounds that he came from a ‘Catholic and irish background’. It’s a tangled tale. Jerome (like myself an Omagh man) claims the BBC, […]
Same old same old?
How do young(ish) people here vote? I ask because a couple of days ago I was listening to two thirty-somethings talking about the debate between the political leaders in Britain and the debate between the political leaders here. Their conclusion: the debate in Britain was far superior because the debate here dealt with the same […]
Same old same old?
How do young(ish) people here vote? I ask because a couple of days ago I was listening to two thirty-somethings talking about the debate between the political leaders in Britain and the debate between the political leaders here. Their conclusion: the debate in Britain was far superior because the debate here dealt with the same […]
‘Have you stopped beating your wife?’ stuff
I knew Mike Nesbitt’s first wife when she, like him, used to work for the BBC in Belfast. She was a lovely young woman and I always thought it a pity their marriage didn’t work out. But that’s her business and his business, and nobody else’s. You wouldn’t think that, though, the way the media […]
‘Have you stopped beating your wife?’ stuff
I knew Mike Nesbitt’s first wife when she, like him, used to work for the BBC in Belfast. She was a lovely young woman and I always thought it a pity their marriage didn’t work out. But that’s her business and his business, and nobody else’s. You wouldn’t think that, though, the way the media […]