RHI fiasco

Are we seeing spin to reduce the scale of the RHI scandal?

Brian Walker on August 11, 2017, 2:04 pm

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It seems moves are afoot to massage down the estimate of the RHI overspend and thus presumably the damage to Arlene Foster and her official and party advisers. The “ new” information reported by Jonny Bell in the Bel Tel dates from January and is therefore not new but newly exposed, we’re told. (Stand by for a chorus telling us they knew it all along). The scaling down rests on the presented fact that the costs of installing “combined heating …

The pendulum swings – time not for Unionist panic nor inaction

Turgon on March 4, 2017, 11:30 am

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So the elections results are in: a sea change has occurred. The bark of unionism’s boat is near overflowed. All may not yet be lost but all is about to be. Wail, lament, tear clothes, put on sack cloth or more realistically start surfing rightmove to find a nice house in the North of England or Midlands or maybe Wales (house prices preclude the south and Scotland will soon be gone). Well maybe and only a naïve unionist would dismiss …

The road to influencing the Brexit future isn’t closed. But is Adams now detaching Brexit from the future of the Assembly?

Brian Walker on January 27, 2017, 12:35 pm

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Why are staunch defenders of the GFA not rejoicing since the UK Supreme Court found that nothing about Northern Ireland’s removal from Europe breaches any law, treaty or part of the constitution and there will now be a UK parliament vote on article 50? Newton Emerson puts the question in the Irish Times with his tongue firmly in his cheek. Any failure to accept the finality of the judgements against them not only perpetuates a false impression of damage to the peace …