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Caption competition
Tweet In the week of Scarfe-gate it was great to see the View’s feature on Northern Ireland political cartoons. Though it was a little short… Cartoons are a powerful and emotive medium that tell a story in a way no words can. We have a great tradition of cartoonists here in NI and Ireland, from [...] more »
PSNI needs recruitment drives says Terry Spence
Tweet Terry Spence was featured on Radio 4’s Saturday PM news show and he aired some serious concerns about the ability of the Police Service of Northern to hold the peace in the context of continuing violence. His concerns were not about the manner in which the police have been confronting the rising violence, but [...] more »
That ol’ tune again
Tweet There’s talk of a triple-dip recession, unemployment is still scarily high, fiscal austerity is biting and we’re now talking about that again… Captions welcomed! more »
Happy New Year!
Tweet Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous new year! Your captions are welcome. more »
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@brianjohnspencr has commented 17 times (1 in the last month).
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What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Tweet Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he [...] read our review »
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A flexible library service for the 21st century?
Tweet Following Alan’s piece on libraries, I picked this ‘advertorial’ from Google plus this evening… about how a US county library system is cutting costs and improving flexibility in their free at the point of delivery services by enabling the whole library service act as a functioning unit as opposed to the one discrete library… read our review » -
A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
Tweet A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, [...] read our review »
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Comment on “A lot of Northern Irish funding rewards bad behaviour” (with few positive outcomes)
on 3 May 2013 at 8:18 pm
Perhaps instead of saying a two speed peace process we should say we have a happy and free flowing highway on one side that is flanked by a putrid and landlocked gulley.
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Comment on Dublin 1982: What a difference thirty odd years makes?
on 1 April 2013 at 1:12 pm
I’ll never forget going down to Abbeyglen Castle Hotel for my summer holidays in 1994 and 1995. The core memory remains for me the roads – how winding they were – and the cars that were on those roads.
And of the cars I remember distinctly that it was opel where it was normally vauxhall and that the cars where as Mick has said, a lot older. I remember especially that there were a lot of really old fiestas.
It wasn’t 30 odd years ago, it was just under 20 years ago and even that time period has witnessed a massive change.
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Comment on “If working class loyalists … don’t decide to politicise and to tackle the political system then they’ll be left behind”
on 5 December 2012 at 11:46 pm
You don’t just politicise a demographic, you need to completely overhaul their perspective of life and how they are to contribute to society – at the heart of which are three words… Education, education and again education… The information rich have aspiration… Sadly there’s not a great deal of aspiration in these communities beyond aspiring for the weekend…
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Comment on Comment on the Week: Is the Church of England facing a crisis?
on 25 November 2012 at 2:00 pm
should have put a bishop’s hat on Merkel… ooh hindsight..
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Comment on Barclays: perverting the course of financial affairs – cartoon (18)
on 3 July 2012 at 5:34 pm
I know what you mean Mick, was struggling to work how to paint the thousand words that I wanted to say, so just went loose with it and tried to portray how those individuals responsible, operating under Bob Diamond’s watch, acted so very inappropriately…
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Comment on Tom Elliott: Mutiny Aboard H.M.S UUP
on 9 March 2012 at 8:26 pm
“The Fermanagh-South Tyrone MLA said people in the party had been working against him over the last number of days and weeks.”
http://www.u.tv/News/Elliott-quit-amid-build-up-of-tensions/c6b5fe90-8f84-4d9f-9d08-d1324e085197
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Comment on Miliband
on 8 January 2012 at 5:57 pm
Labour Twitter twats…your captions please!
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Comment on Dr. U-Turn
on 8 January 2012 at 5:38 pm
lack of internet access delayed uploading this piece which has covered last weeks news
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Comment on It’s Abbott Time!
on 6 January 2012 at 9:48 am
Or you could have this by Steve Barker of the Guardian…..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2012/jan/05/diane-abbott-twitter-spotlight-lawrence
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Comment on Autocue!
on 3 January 2012 at 2:32 pm
Your captions please!
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