Dr Graham Ellison

Talking without listening and victory without annihilation

Turgon on February 2, 2014, 3:40 pm

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Mick has covered the criminalisation of users of prostitution debate and the spat between Dr. Graham Ellison and Jim Wells ain the Stormont committee below. I thought there might be some merit in looking at what this shows about the DUP’s view of itself, others views of it and how the DUP deals with these sorts of issues. This episode seems to be a case of two sides talking without listening. I am not going to enter into the merits …

[Updated] Queens academic taught a hard lesson at the hands of ‘that lot in the DUP’

Mick Fealty on January 31, 2014, 4:39 pm

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This is odd. Well intentioned or not, a Queens academic has managed to get himself on the poor end of the argument over Maurice Morrow’s private members bill which contains a maximalist clause that would criminalise prostitution. Rather ill-advisedly Dr Graham Ellison decided to lobby a Swedish witness, Gunilla Ekberg, an ex-special adviser with the Swedish Government, who had previously given evidence in favour of Lord Morrow’s bill. The trouble is the email contained rather a lot of man playing …