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Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
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 »
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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
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 »
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O’Toole’s New Republic – unfinished business or just a dream?
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 »
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Comment on The citizenship test: Protestants as well as Catholics in favour of fee waiver?
on 2 May 2012 at 5:58 pm
This embarassing little tale again confirms that many a mater and pater of the little Britishers are loyal to the half crown instead of the Crown-plus ca change…
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Comment on Tom Elliott’s first post resignation interview…
on 9 March 2012 at 7:26 pm
Whine, whine, whine-its all the media’s fault …….zzzzzz……
Elliott had no fight in him at all. A pathetic excuse for a leader.
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Comment on Elliott off – what next for the UUP?
on 9 March 2012 at 8:41 am
Anyone is better than backwoodsman, buffoon, Elliott-Nesbitt is the best of a bad bunch if he can stop McNarry returning to the fold.
Ally McCoist may be looking for a job as well…….
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Comment on Willie Clarke ‘allowed the option’ of working in Down council…
on 22 February 2012 at 8:25 am
, Surely Mick Coogan is the best replacement?
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Comment on Occupy Belfast – a (small) protest about housing
on 14 January 2012 at 8:26 pm
Fairly pathetic stuff. The middle-classes just don’t do good protest. Belfast’s hard won reputation for street protest is being ruined by these middle class muppets.
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Comment on Can Irish soccer ‘swing’ both ways?
on 5 January 2012 at 8:08 pm
O’Neill hasn’t learnt from the mistakes made by his predecessor, Worthington-e.g he is already using the term ‘poaching’ and describing the Northern Ireland soccer team as ‘his country’. A ‘country’ in soccer but not in cricket, rugby etc.?
O’Neill’s starting point should be to accept the absolute right of irish lads to play for the Ireland team but then to try to persuade them to instead consider playing for the 6 county team for footballing reasons-for example, persuading players of limited talent to increase their profiles and club careers through accruing more caps by playing for his less talented team.This would be a less cynical approach than pretending that Darron Gibson et al have somehow been tricked into playing for a foreign country.
Given that the IFA team has been drawn in such a tough WC qualifying group confirms that his hopes of attracting players on the promise of the road to glory to Brazil 2014 are somewhat limited.
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Comment on SDLP: Deputy attacks Leader over ‘poverty’ pay campaign
on 5 January 2012 at 3:04 pm
McDonnell should have had the gumption to know not to be the flag-bearer for the MLA pay rise issue. He should have realised that adoptingt such an unpopular position would be manna from heaven for the media and his enemies inside and outside of his party.Following on from his ‘blinded by the lights’ comedy routine and his share of the cake (nose in the trough) comments, McDonnell has had a calamitous start as leader. Durkan and Ritchie must be laughing their heads off at him and as for Sinn Fein….
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Comment on What on earth was that Dr Al?
on 6 November 2011 at 5:19 pm
Cringeworthy stuff -meandering, aimless,hesitant, unrehearsed and careless. Who was meant to be advising the new leader on media issues-Was it McKinney?
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Comment on Your questions for the SDLP leadership candidates?
on 3 November 2011 at 6:42 pm
Why won’t Margaret make a speech on Saturday?
Why didn’t Margaret endorse you? (Alex has no need to reply)
Are your chances of being leader reduced by the fact it is a PR Vote?
Do you agree that PR makes it a head to head contest between Alex and Conal?
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Comment on Green Party NI conference, the visit of Alex Attwood, and criticism of MLAs who can’t read or believe the speeches written for them
on 1 November 2011 at 7:06 am
I know Brian Wilson from his former life as a lecturer at the Belfast Institute. To suggest that Brian is some sort of glory-hunter is arrant nonsense. Brian eats, sleeps and breathes politics and has always done so, long before devolution opened the door for careeerist politicians like Agnew to carve out lucrative income for themselves.
The reason why Brian and Anne have such strong and consistent personal votes(a rare thing in itself in fickle North Down, as Steve may later discover) is because of decades of bread and butter constituency work on housing, benefits etc.
When you see electoral failures such as Joanne Dunlop (who?) castigating Wilson, it is not hard to see why the Greens are imploding and why the electorate will soon consign them to the past.
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