THE SHAPE OF BELFAST – Xchange Summer School looking at the architectural heritage of the city and what could be done to improve the city in the future.
Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at the Xchange Summer School on political participation. Now speaking as someone who has never been a serious member of any political party, I’m looking at it from an outsider’s pov. There are a bunch of conundrums facing politics. Participation in political parties is dropping across the board. In Northern Ireland the numbers of people driving even the bigger parties are a fraction of the brigades of even the recent past. Professionalisation of the business of …
