I suggested on Monday at Brassneck that Peter Hain was (as we like to say in Northern Ireland about any politician who looks like he hasn’t enjoyed breakfast) toast. I may still be proved wrong in that call, but with the PM calling his Work and Pension Minister’s ‘stumble’ over donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign a matter of incompetence, he hasn’t made future tenure in the Westminser Cabinet any easier for the would be ‘big game hunter’.
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] 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 »
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 »
Apostrophe needed in the title … unless there is a minister called Peter Hains.
It’s not exactly news that Mick is sorely lacking in the spelling and punctuation departments.
Still, we love him.
We do indeed, Joe, but I like to keep him on his toes.