DECLASSIFIED PAPERS show how government departments responded to Secretary of State Peter Brooke’s request for ideas about local excellence as he prepared for a speech designed to show off Northern Ireland. What ideas would such a speech contain today?
You’ll guess how bad this is when I’m going to apologise in advance for it. Dan Boyle, former tweet-master general of the Green Party, has managed to coincide the launch of his album, Third Adolescence, with the 30th anniversary re-launch of the Green Party. Yeah, you read that right, his album. In deference to his chequered electoral history, he has included a track called ‘Vote For Me’ (if you really hate your ears – you can listen to a sample preview on Amazon). Amazingly, he isn’t the first …
