I’ll admit to being sceptical in advance, but BBC NI’s Politics Show just about got away with their use of a footballing visual metaphor for their review of the Northern Ireland Executive’s year – as long as you remember that there is no official opposing team playing against them. The jostling of the pitch-side reporter at the end was a nice touch too.
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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 »