I just wanted to say that as a resident of Bangor West, I received a few pieces of literature from Brian Wilson during the last election, including one newsletter with a number of pictures of him and his wife Anne (Alliance candidate !!), and also one leaflet picturing an elephant with the slogan “Brian Wilson No 1″ and encouraging me to” please consider Anne Wilson ” – as a Green Party supporter, I was really quite disgusted to see Brian Wilson promote an Alliance candidate, and I don’t see how he can claim that he remained neutral during the election – ??
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 »
Is the best way to overcome the legacy of conflict simply to forget about it? Author and journalist David Rieff spoke on this subject last week in a seminar at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. Rieff has recently written a book titled, Against Remembrance (published in Ireland by Liffey [...] read our review »
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 »
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 31 October 2011 at 5:06 pm
I just wanted to say that as a resident of Bangor West, I received a few pieces of literature from Brian Wilson during the last election, including one newsletter with a number of pictures of him and his wife Anne (Alliance candidate !!), and also one leaflet picturing an elephant with the slogan “Brian Wilson No 1″ and encouraging me to” please consider Anne Wilson ” – as a Green Party supporter, I was really quite disgusted to see Brian Wilson promote an Alliance candidate, and I don’t see how he can claim that he remained neutral during the election – ??
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