Play The Game, Son
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Well, the evil day finally arrived in the latest episode of ‘Blue Lights’. Episode Three of Series Four centred around the trial of dissident republicans Mo McIntyre and Anto Donovan for common enterprise in the murder of Constable Gerry Cliff. …
Garvaghy Road: Winning the Street, while Setting Fire to the Argument for a New Ireland…
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The Orange Order’s right to walk the Garvaghy Road was upheld and loyalism stayed calm, but by following a dissident lead, mainstream nationalism hardened tribal lines and alienated the uncommitted voters it needs to reach 50%.
Go East, Old Man – Part I: Tīngbudǒng! Cycling Through Village China
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At 82, on a folding Brompton, Peter Emerson cycles through rural Yúnnán and Guǎngxī to see how Chinese villages make decisions. There’s báijiǔ with farmers, a granny’s 70th birthday lunch, and a stop short of Tibet. He finds that China, like almost everyone else, swears by majority rule, though it held a three-option vote back in 1197.
How Big Tech Powers Russian Hybrid Warfare…
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The other day Prime Minister Andy Burnham said that he believed that there was Russian interference during the Brexit elections. From the BBC: Burnham told The Rest is Politics podcast, that upon arriving in Downing Street, he had asked if …
The sham fight at Stormont…
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Our elected leaders had a busy day up at Stormont yesterday. What were they all working so furiously on? Was it the environmental crisis of Lough Neagh? The crisis in our health service? Improving education? How to build more houses? …
After Drumcree Whither the DUP?
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As the dispute at Drumcree winds down, Northern Ireland is left to look at the political aftermath. Commentators have been talking about what is playing out within the DUP as Carla Lockhart advocates for ‘profound consequences’, seeming to mean removing …
Drumcree: Could the Crisis Reshape Unionist Politics?
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As the Drumcree crisis intensifies, some Unionists are calling for profound political consequences, potentially including the collapse of Stormont and its institutions, whilst others are considering the bigger picture and believe that this would be a strategic mistake. Over the …
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.
The sad saga of Lough Neagh exposed. The Executive’s easy way out doesn’t work
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If you’re looking for a way to while away the time waiting for the next round of shadow boxing over Garvaghy Road, look no further than Sam McBride’s latest patiently laid out account of Executive dysfunction. Not evasion alone but …