Prominent, and controversial, blogger Guido Fawkes ventures onto the BBC’s Newsnight patch tonight – there’s a short online report here [RealPlayer video] – to blame an overly cozy relationship between political journalists and their party-political sources for the timid coverage politics gets in the wider media – a viewpoint that Jeremy Paxman describes as a “pathetic conspiracy world”.
Dr Gordon Gillespie, a researcher at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, gave a presentation on “Graphic Portrayals: Northern Ireland, Graphic Novels and the Peace Process”, at the Linen Hall Library. Gordon started with a clarification that he was going to talk about graphic novels/comic books, not cartoons, and material that was [...] read our review »
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
I was wondering was Mark Davenport too timid
here or is the thought of power going to Gerry’s head already
The hyperlinks don’t work here and who are the Bloggers called M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr
and M10o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr and M20o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr?
Cybez
An errant ‘space’ was to blame in the link before the final “
But I should probably point out that I’ve already noted it.
The historic meeting this week between Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams in Belfast, was a slap in the face to all the doomsayers, professional skeptics, perpetual pessimists and people who believe that what was is what will always be.
Whoops. Wrong topic.
Thanks for fixing it Pete.I never have that problem on any other site. I’ve had trouble with Preview on here before so I didn’t preview it first to see what it might turn out like.
Anyway, I think I’ll go and read some of the sites listed on your sidebar starting with http://desolaterow.blogspot.com then http://www.the-broom.net I might even visit http://www.nimagyar.blogspot.com
As I’m in a complaining mood I always wonder about the tagline here on Slugger “Notes On Northern Ireland Politics and Culture” wouldn’t it read better as ‘Notes on Northern Irish Politics and Culture’? Is there a , a : or ; missing there somewhere?
Oh, just to finish does the Poll “Will the DUP and Sinn Féin agree to share power by 26th March?” refer to this year or next year?
Almost felt sorry for poor Guido last night he was ripped to shreds by a well heeled hack. It was painful to watch and I bet the bold Guido hasn’t got the link on his blogspot today. Any chance of putting it on here Pete?