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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 » -
Have we Learned our own Lessons? Book Review of John Brewer’s Peace Processes
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] read our review »
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The peace process not such a good model after all
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
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Comment on Owen Paterson: “It was a huge pleasure to be part of this great sporting occasion”
on 20 September 2010 at 4:58 pm
I take it the Minister for Culture Arts and Leisure had another commitment on Sunday?
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Comment on Fantasy D’Hondt
on 27 July 2010 at 6:17 pm
Thanks Alan.
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Comment on Would a city hall funeral for Alex Higgins show us up as hypocrites?
on 26 July 2010 at 11:06 pm
He deserves a formal public send-off just as much as Bestie did, though the fact that snooker never had the profile of soccer may mean there’s less support publicly and politically for it.
The other factor is what do his family want? Just because GB’s family wanted such a funeral doesn’t mean AH’s will.
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Comment on Fantasy D’Hondt
on 26 July 2010 at 11:00 pm
I asked this question recently in the Belfast Telegraph comments forum and nobody there could get beyond the argument about whether SF might top the poll or not. Glad Slugger is made of sterner stuff.
My own opinion is that if SF do top the poll (and I’ll be disappointed if they do) they will take Finance first. I just can’t see that they would leave this post for the DUP if they had first pick.
Whether or not the DUP would put their money where their mouth is and take Education first is another matter altogether. I don’t for a minute believe Education is as high on their agenda as Storey sometimes hopes it were. But, it would represent an easy (and triumphal) victory if they were to take it and reverse Ruane’s position on selection.
Can anyone remind me, when Durkan was Finance Minister, what was the UUP’s first choice as they had topped the poll so would have had first pick?
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Comment on Possible sanction against Ruane over schools?
on 1 July 2010 at 11:22 am
@ TheHorse – Thankfully mose people here in this state believe the 11 plus is an outdated subjection of class politics on 11 year old children,
Strangely my memory of the Burns consultation result was that the public was overwhelmingly in favour of retaining academic selection. What is it about that that particular consultation SF finds so forgettable? Has another consultation taken place since that has produced a different result?
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Comment on A smashed in face – blame the parents?
on 23 June 2010 at 11:56 pm
Mark – so you’re confirming it was the media [and more than one paper] who mis-reported this story. Why then the attack on the commenters who were reacting quite fairly to the mis-reporting. I suggest you ought to be more critical of the former than the latter. Just a thought.
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Comment on Dysfunctional? Or just incompetent?
on 23 June 2010 at 10:42 am
I was told recently that her grandfather was a prominent republican in his day which is why she is the apple of Adams eye. Unfortunately I can’t remember the man’s name as it meant nothing to me at the time.
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Comment on Photograph of the Day – Nelson’s Office
on 12 June 2010 at 5:49 pm
He’ll be raging you didn’t get his flag pole into the picture. He whinged long enough until it was put up I hear!
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Comment on “It is the Executive’s responsibility to make the decision on the future of the reform programme for local government”
on 5 June 2010 at 8:01 pm
Edwin is apparently in line to be made Finance Minister…
O M G !
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Comment on Terror in Tyrone – White Elephant Alert.
on 3 June 2010 at 12:29 pm
” the 45 mph driver will speed up when she gets onto these in an almost deliberate effort to stop people getting past. ”
On my route such drivers are invariably male David.
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