Newsnight has a great double piece between Norman Tebbit (he of the cricket test) and Tony Benn (born the year before the Queen), and then an interesting discussion of what societal changes there have been between now and eighty years ago when she was born. Beano kicks off a discussion about the advantages of a constitutional monarchy over an elective Presidency. But the best crack is on this week’s Now Show (sound file).
Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is not [...] read our review »
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »