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Books
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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
Tweet 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 [...] read our review » -
Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
Tweet What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and [...] read our review »
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Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
Tweet A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Willie Frazer detained at his home this morning…
on 27 February 2013 at 10:54 pm
This is getting beyond satire. Is Amando Ianucci writing the script for this?
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Comment on Cameron’s Dunkirk?
on 28 January 2013 at 9:07 am
“Cameron is looking to revise EU treaties”
I suspect that this is the heart of the matter. This isn”t really about Britain’s membership of the EU but rather its obligations to EU rights based legislation.
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Comment on FFS, Give Us A HUG!!!
on 19 January 2013 at 7:58 pm
Because I’m curious to know. It would give a better idea as to your political thinking.
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Comment on FFS, Give Us A HUG!!!
on 19 January 2013 at 7:20 pm
I was referring to his political analysis, not his ability to wear a warm coat.
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Comment on FFS, Give Us A HUG!!!
on 19 January 2013 at 6:54 pm
Do you really admire Jamie Bryson DC?
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Comment on FFS, Give Us A HUG!!!
on 19 January 2013 at 4:54 pm
One more thing;
The flying of Parachute Regiment flags in Derry and a counter rally to the Bloody Sunday Commemoration is an idefensible act of EDL style fuckwittery intended to cause some provocation and conflict. The fact that some regular posters on this site are attempting to defend it is beyond belief.
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Comment on FFS, Give Us A HUG!!!
on 19 January 2013 at 4:49 pm
I find Alias’ heartfelt defence of the civil right to protest encouraging. It’s an important issue. Given the fact that the majority of these intentionally road blocking protests have been facilitated by the PSNI renders his point a bit moot.
It’s telling that Alias the other supporters of these protesters dwell on the issue of the right to protest over that of the question of why they are actually protesting. The frequency of flag flying over Belfast City Hall is not the entire issue according to Jim Wilson. It seems to be a mélange of grievances such the HET, Sinn Fein pursuing (through democratic means) a limited nationalist agenda within a shared UK jurisdiction and sense of a cultural identity being eroded.
The cultural identity part is telling. Given that almost all street names and public buildings are named after historical unionist and british figures, It seems that these protests are more of an attempt to claim a historical narrative of the recent conflict. For PUL this was a great wee country until the Republicans wrecked it, therefore the desired outcome of a peace process for them is a return to the Ulster Britishness of Unionist autocracy and the post war consensus with jobs aplenty for the loyal and a strong British Welfare State.
They are to be disappointed. Civic society is now shared within a UK framework. The fact that a flag is flying in designated days does nothing to change that. But the historically positive relationship with the British state is not under attack from SF or the AP for that matter; it is under attack from an ideologically crazed coalition government who are shrinking the british economy and stripping the industrial redistributive post war model that fosters citizenship more than symbols.
If unionism didn’t rely on the perceived external threat of nationalism and saw this as an issue that could be used to foster more unicorns. Rather, unionist leaders have proven itself to be inept and calculatingly manipulative and divisive. Gerry Lynchs excellent piece already pointed out how this could also be suicidal for unionism.
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Comment on “In Ireland, it is not in our culture to eat horsemeat and therefore, we do not expect to find it in a burger…”
on 15 January 2013 at 9:04 pm
Horsemeats quite tasty. Enjoyed some Switzerland about ten years ago.
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Comment on Robert Kee, hero of journalism and the television history of Irish nationalism
on 14 January 2013 at 10:46 pm
I’m watching “Ireland. a television history” at the minute. The full series is available on YouTube and I must say its an absolute pleasure to watch.
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Comment on Leadership That’s Working?
on 13 January 2013 at 3:34 pm
Meanwhile, back in 1690………
“So the mask has slipped on the mindset of some who support the useless Alliance Party. Just as some joining the Alliance Party in the foolish and dishonest belief that the best way to promote the stability offered by Unionism is by being dishonest about it and pretend it isn’t Unionism, there are others like Lynch who are simply Republicans who are coming out of closet and thinking that they can use Alliance to push through a Republican agenda while pretending to an incompetent media otherwise (and I have a couple of Republican friends who admit they support Alliance for this reason). All in all a party of dishonest types mixed with naive types, unified under the umbrella of being completely pretentious bell-ends. A party that simply can’t be trusted.”
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