An Orange perspective on Garvaghy Road and the Case for Unionist Unity…
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From Drumcree Hill to today’s Assembly, the denial of Portadown Orangemen’s right to walk a public road is unchanged. A veteran protester argues that only a single, unified unionist party can unseat Michelle O’Neill, and calls on Gavin, Jon and Jim to make it happen at the ballot box.
Micheál Martin’s pluralist approach is an upgrade to Sinn Féin’s ‘dummymandered’ single option future
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Nationalism risks its own form of “dummymander”: reading the 2021 census as a countdown to unity, much as Texas Republicans redrew their maps on demographic assumptions and lost. The Taoiseach’s new body offers a stronger path, preparing for several futures and engaging every tradition, so that consent is earned rather than assumed.
Collapse the Executive? What unionists think…
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In the first of a series of reports on its latest LucidTalk poll, the Belfast Telegraph is reporting on the popularity of the unionist party leaders, plus Carla Lockhart and Jamie Bryson amongst the supporters of each of the unionist …
What ‘Before the Vote’ gets right and wrong about the subvention…
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The first chapter of John Doyle’s Before the Vote: Planning for a united Ireland examines the Northern Ireland subvention, the gap between taxes raised in Northern Ireland and the public spending allocated to it. Doyle starts from the ONS figure …
The good news and the not so good news about the Windsor Framework
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From The Times The taxpayer has spent billions of pounds preparing Britain for post-Brexit food checks that are to be scrapped as part of Labour’s reset with the European Union. Later this month Andy Burnham is due to unveil a …
The Beginning of the End
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Do you remember how it began? Or how you felt when you heard the news? That Donald Trump… the reality TV show host, the self-promoting guest star of sitcoms and movies galore, the man who once took a ‘stone cold …
Back to the Future: Could Belfast’s DeLorean Test Track Become a Linear Park?
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Whenever I visit a new city, I usually spend a fair bit of time scrolling through Instagram and doing countless web searches to find interesting things to see and do while I’m there. I’ll also have a look at Atlas …
US Midterm Elections sees a Blue wave as Democrats take Congress and the Senate…
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Last night was a brilliant result for the Democrats as voters rejected the kleptocracy of the Trump regime. So far, Democrats have flipped Senate seats in Michigan, Texas, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio with more to come. …
From Now On, Everything Changes..
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So, is this it? Are Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson about to pull the plug on ‘Blue Lights‘ for good? Or will the show live on in some other incarnation, heading in a new direction? Before we get into that, …
Go East, Old Man IV: A ballot where nobody votes no
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From a Dartmouth parade ground to a Belfast youth club, a Moscow kitchen table and a Tibetan lake, Peter Emerson traces the chance encounters that turned an ex-submariner into a lifelong critic of yes-or-no voting. He also asks what ancient Asia might teach us about deciding things together.