From NATO to Tehran: Why Modern Anti-Imperialism is little more than a “Chocolate Fireguard”
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Gary Kent argue that American intervention remains a vital lifeline for those facing tyranny. From the survival of Kurdistan to the burgeoning revolution in Iran, the “armchair anti-imperialists” ignore a harsh reality: for many oppressed peoples, Western agency is the difference between a future of freedom and a descent into chaos.
Northern Ireland had the wettest January in 149 years…
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You might have noticed that January was spectacularly wet. Well, the Met Office has confirmed our suspicions and said we have actually broken a historic rainfall record. Provisional Met Office statistics show that Northern Ireland experienced its wettest January in …
George Mitchell gets thrown under the bus…
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Since the partial release of the Jeffrey Epstein files last week, organisations have been busy erasing any links to George Mitchell over the past few days. From the BBC: Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) is to sever ties with a former …
Timothy Gaston MLA Faces Suspension from Stormont
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According to the BBC in this news report… “Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) assembly member Timothy Gaston is facing a two-day suspension from the Northern Ireland Assembly after telling the chairwoman of a Stormont committee to “breathe”. He made the remark …
We did it! Belfast Is the UK’s Most Congested City…
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January is usually the month for resolutions and for quietly taking stock of how last year’s good intentions actually turned out. If 2025 was meant to be the year Belfast finally began to reduce car traffic, then it hasn’t gone …
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.
DFI punched in the face over its active travel strategy…
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For two decades, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) published unchallenged plans regarding its Active Travel strategies. Like Tyrell Biggs’ pre-fight plan to defeat Mike Tyson, their plans eventually met reality on September 29, 2025. In 1987 Tyrell Biggs said he …
A Strange Choice of Words…
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In our casual conversations, the choice of words is governed by habit, but when dealing with political issues where there is much at stake, we need to select our words more carefully. In 1946 George Orwell wrote an essay called Politics …
Why Northern Tribalism is Slowly Burning Ireland’s Republican Dream
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While Northern Republicanism remains preoccupied with the “semiotics” of defiance and historical score-settling, the dream of a 32-county state is stalling and the divergences between North and South are widening. If the Good Friday Agreement was meant to be a bridge, why has it been turned into a trench? Mick argues it’s time to trade 19th-century tactics for 21st-century statecraft.