Looks like the First Minister’s been wrapping Mark Devenport’s knuckles for making ripples in the newly wed’s hamely bliss over the first set of contrary press releases over Northern Ireland’s ultimate destiny. Is Gerry Adams trying to play Yoko to Ian Paisley’s Paul McCartney, or should that be the other way round?
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
Extract from Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker: The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2010. Political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new executive in May 2007, closing yet another chapter in [...] read our review »
Reading Ian’s comments I think of “elephants in the corner”, “things swept under the carpet” etc.
Yoko Ono & Paul McCartney – not sure whether it’s that situation for either side, Mick.
Mick
Ever see Animal Crackers?
Yoko and McCartney? Nah.
More like Grouchos Captain Spalding to Margaret Dumonts Mrs Rittenhouse.
As meetings of the executive and assembly occur, slugger should run a weekly competition along the lines of ‘which classic comedy act does the latest episode remind you of?’
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