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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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Books: Listening to Van Morrison…
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 »
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“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did indeed [...] read our review »
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Come on Dave own up
Attacking the unions physically is a bit much even for a neo con ideologue . But full marks for ‘bravery’ and null points for self preservation 
For them that hath want more and them that hath not — well shag them .
Deja vu -1982 .
We live and learn not . The attention span of a rabbit have our leaders -political and union ;(
Not aware of the basis of allegations against Trades Unions – they seemed to have gotten a very good deal for their members – too good for the country as it turned out.