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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
The House of Lords was the suitably grand venue for the London launch of Alf McCreary’s magnificently illustrated tome Titanic Port, a history of Belfast Harbour. Before I got a chance to take a good look at my copy, my ears pricked up when the chairman of the harbour commissioners Len O’Hagan said hopes were high [...] read our review » -
“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review » -
The Creative Class and Northern Ireland
As part of NICVA’s series of masterclasses from its Centre for Economic Empowerment project, there was a morning seminar on the topic of the “creative class” (as popularised by Richard Florida) and its applicability to Northern Ireland. The agenda was to: Explain Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class” and the link between economic outcomes [...] read our review »
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Comment on The CUs election and Rowan Atkinson
on 20 April 2010 at 2:09 pm
Turgon is right about the UUP and the Policing and Justice vote which also showed that the Conservatives will not temper their NI policies because of UCUNF.
I think it is the UUP Assembly Party which has a become a row of Mr Beans. Unstaked they grow in every direction and think only of the little world of Stormont.
McNarry and McFarland are key examples, although the latter has followed Sylvia into the uber-moderate wilderness, to be joined by too many of the Westminster candidates, bar Reg and Michael Nesbitt.
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Comment on Child abuse is about closed circles of power, not religion…
on 19 April 2010 at 4:34 am
The Mountbatten connection to Kincora is repeated assertion without evidence. Just throw in the name of somebody famous who is gay or bisexual and see how the conspiracy theory has gathered pace.
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Comment on Child abuse is about closed circles of power, not religion…
on 19 April 2010 at 1:28 am
Pippakin – you say “the report into Kincora kept sections secret”. I am not aware of this or don’t recall it and don’t have a copy.
Have you, and could you quote from it or reference your statement?
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Comment on Child abuse is about closed circles of power, not religion…
on 18 April 2010 at 8:53 pm
It is about power in the sense that the Catholic Church in the south had effective state power once the Irish Free State came into existence. Crimes involving priests were therefore only to be dealt with by the church. This untouchability seeped into the north as well for various reasons.
So while the Kincora cases (and others) came to court the RUC permitted Catholic suspects to be exiled south by the Cardinal and their Bishops.
Nobody has ever thought “this is a uniquely Catholic thing” as Mick suggests. In that vein he then speaks of “the profoundly unsatisfactory way in which the Kincora inquiry ended: literally in secrecy.”
That is hardly the case. There was a public enquiry led by Judge Hughes whose report was published.
If it did not accuse MI5, the Royal Family and much of the Unionist Party of sharing round the Kincora boys, it wasn’t for want of assertion by anti-unionists (not a ‘sectarian’ charge Malc) but because of a total lack of evidence.
Nasty old thing, justice.
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Comment on Euro breakup – the warning signs
on 16 April 2010 at 2:38 am
It seems only fair that Ireland should hand over $500 million to prop up the Greeks. Didn’t they pay more over the years to Ireland for its demands based on the law of the Irish exception?
Anyway the costs of leaving the Euro would be more than staying put.
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Comment on Snubbed During Labour’s Promises…
on 15 April 2010 at 8:13 pm
Gladstone must be warming up in his grave.
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Comment on Sinn Fein should not be allowed to escape the ban on double mandates
on 14 April 2010 at 7:02 pm
Any ban on standing for more than one parliament would be knocked out by the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg or by the NI Human Rights Commission.
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Comment on It was just too hard to resist…
on 14 April 2010 at 4:44 pm
He could still do with a good cut and blow dry from a top N’ards stylist.
£35 spent and a possible vote.
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Comment on “Losing seats was never part of the inevitability narrative…”
on 14 April 2010 at 4:45 am
Socaire says
“They had total control of the state which they carved out of our country. They were part of that state. They could give their loyalty and respect to that state.That state gave them employment via their A, B and C Specials. They had a right to fly their own flag, speak their own language…But it was their apartheid state funded by the English and we had had enough.”
So the inability to fly a flag justified you starting a war and killing 2,000 people?
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Comment on “The package aims to deliver £225m in total…”
on 13 April 2010 at 8:59 pm
Alastair Darling paid out £8.1 billion* to compensate every Icelandic bank depositor so why not do the same for the only UK financial institution not getting rescued up to now.
*£8,100,000,000
Every penny uncosted and much less likely to be retrieved now the Icelanders have reneged on the deal.
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