Schrödinger Northern Ireland gets off lightly from Trumps tariffs…
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Our position in the UK and the EU is proving beneficial today as President Trump releases details of his tariff plans. Asia, which makes most of the world’s crap consumer goods, gets hit hardest. Ireland as part of the EU …
‘We Need Greenland’ – Conquest Is Back, Baby…
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Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast President Trump continues to flummox and flabbergast the ever-upright and law-abiding NATO partner states with his forthright Greenland claims. POTUS wants them to understand that he is not mucking about when it comes …
Stormont Is On The Slippery Slope. Again…
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Belfast and Glenariff is a Slugger reader from Belfast. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired …
Stormont and Sensibility: Jim Allister MP writes a romance novel…
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Not to be outdone by Doug Beattie and Peter Robinson, Jim Allister MP becomes the latest Unionist leader to put pen to paper. Whereas Doug Beattie regaled us with his war exploits and Peter Robinson went for ‘Witty Putdowns and …
The Republican Party has a moral duty to speak up against swingeing cuts to USAID…
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Time is running out for millions of people in the world’s poorest nations as the US takes a step closer to making drastic cuts to its international aid budget. Tariffs, Ukraine and Gaza have dominated the headlines, for good reason, …
A distinct lack of imagination from the Chancellor…
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New week, a new cunning plan by Rachel Reeves to make savings by cutting welfare benefits. From BBC News,“Reeves, who ruled out tax rises in the statement, has already announced several spending cuts. But late on Tuesday, it emerged that …
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Carry On Down the Falls…
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McKinstry Road. The last stop on the Belfast Glider route west of the city centre. Probably five miles and certainly 24 “stops”. A small industrial estate and I begin the walk. It is easier to walk downhill than uphill. At …
Portrait of a happy man…
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I was sorting through some of the paperwork left behind by my mother a few years ago and came upon a book – a compilation of writings by authors aged eight to eighty-eight from throughout Northern California. I was about …