Journalists have a way of disappointing you. A political story comes up and, while they report it, they don’t return to it again and again, especially now when politicians are vulnerable in the run-up to a general election. In ways it’s hardly believable. The example I have in mind is the fact that the Irish […]
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St Patrick’s Day and the Holylands: oh, the shame!
When I was a young man I rarely went out for a pint. Or two. If I went out drinking with my equally scurrilous friends, we had one ambition: to get pleasantly tanked. The amount of wise things we said then, the occasional scuffles we engaged in, were part of learning to be adult. Meanwhile, to […]
Sshhht! Peter’s talking. I think.
Picture by Northern Ireland Executive You know the way politicians are always telling interviewers: “That’s a hypothetical question you’re asking me and I don’t deal in hypotheses, I deal in the real world”? Well, our First Minister doesn’t go in for that line of response. With one bound he is free of such restrictions: “ […]