WE’VE all got questions we’d like to ask Peter Hain - not all of them nice or easy. The Independent’s ‘You Ask The Questions’ next public figure up for public interrogation is our Dear Leader, so send your email query to {encode=”myquestion@independent.co.uk” title=”myquestion@independent.co.uk”} with his name in the subject line. But for Heaven’s sake, don’t expect a straight answer!
As part of NICVA’s series of masterclasses from its Centre for Economic Empowerment project, there was a morning seminar on the topic of the “creative class” (as popularised by Richard Florida) and its applicability to Northern Ireland. The agenda was to: Explain Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class” and the link between economic outcomes [...] read our review »
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
“Secretary of State to be questioned…”
Pity it isn’t in Abu Ghraib