While chuckling hasn’t seemed to have proved too popular here, Magnus Linklater argues Alex Slamond’s cheeky grin has helped overcome a lack of SNP delivery on election promises and highly limited legislative programme and for all Brown’s seriousness it is doing him no favours. However, can it continue to work in the longer-term?
Great little review of Listening to Van Morrison by Griel Marcus… It’s a short book, not a biography or a career survey, but an attempt to follow those moments in Morrison’s music, as he’s made it from his first records with Them, from Belfast in 1965 to the present day, when something happens that breaks [...] read our review »
It’s not published until 3rd March, but one book I recommend you place an advance order for from Slugger’s Bookstore is James Harkin’s Niche. Belfast émigré Harkin examines a number of stories from business, culture and politics and comes to a single insight: everywhere the broad middle is collapsing. He offers Woolworths as an iconic exemplar [...] read our review »