Gains for the Alliance?
Potential good new for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. According to Ipsos-Mori, they are up to 9% in the polls. Even with a large margin of error, that is good news for a party which languished...
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Roleplayer blurs fantasy with reality? Clearly Rona Jaffe was right. Ban this filth now, or face losing your knickers.
View ArticleFunny terrorist
Is it just me and my prejudices, or is Gerry Adams writing a funny article about the trials and tribulations of being a candidate, without mentioning the Ireland question at all, utterly bizarre? This...
View ArticleCrowns of Thorns
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s article yesterday about what to do about a problem like Scotland, got Lib Dem bloggers in a lather for wrongly accrediting the West Dunfermline By-election victory to the SNP, but...
View ArticleWill Stormont bite the LVT bullet?
An interesting article appears out of the blue: Last night the Department of Finance and Personnel reiterated the answer they gave to Mr O’Loan when he asked what consideration the minister (Peter...
View Article42, Northern Ireland and Cameron’s non-leadership
Is it me or is there a link between the government’s (possibly premature, possibly not) triumphalism about winning round the Labour rebels over the Terrorism Bill and the latest political crisis in...
View ArticleDo you “deserve” your rights?
Anyone who thinks our civil liberties will be any better protected by a Conservative Government should think again. Speaking in Bangor (the Northern Ireland flavour) on Friday, the News Letter reports...
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