Stormont Elections: 42% Pro-Union, 41% Pro-Unity, 16% Other
A lot of partisan views have been expressed on the results of last week’s regional elections in the north ofContinue Reading
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Leo Varadkar’s “Food Parcels” Jibe At Mary Lou McDonald Backfires. Bigly!
Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, theContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil May Expand Into The North But New Voters Mean New Obligations
The thought occurs that while Sinn Féin may be showing early signs of stress in the balancing act between nationalContinue Reading
The DUP Fudges Denial Of Talks With Loyalist Terrorists On The Stormont Deal
A not unsurprising exclusive from the Irish News in Belfast, claiming that the ultra-right Democratic Unionist Party consulted with representativesContinue Reading
Whether Irish Rights Or Gay Rights, No Equality, No Stormont.
Thanks to the Trojan work of the veteran journalists Eamonn Mallie and Brian Rowan, we now know the sequence ofContinue Reading
Unionist Opposition To Irish Is Base Colonialism. Stop Pretending Otherwise
Since the United Kingdom’s violent imposition of partition in the early 1920s, the pro-union leaders of the Six Counties haveContinue Reading
The Stormont Talks Failure. Britain Swaps EU Rule For DUP Rule?
She came, she saw, she fucked off home. That summed up yesterday’s visit by Theresa May, the United Kingdom’s crisis-proneContinue Reading
The Threatened Gerrymandering Of Elections In The North Of Ireland
In September 2016, the United Kingdom’s local non-partisan Boundary Commission released its preliminary proposals for the creation of seventeen newContinue Reading
The Inevitable Unionist And Alt-Unionist Failure
On the issue of the United Kingdom’s poisonous legacy colony in Ireland it’s rare to find a bit of non-apologistContinue Reading
The DUP’s Stormont Proposal Is About The Restoration Of Unionist Supremacy
Despite several months of talks – and non-talks – the Democratic Unionist Party still doesn’t get it. There will beContinue Reading
Whether Robert E Lee Or Edward Carson, Some Statues Should Fall
If Donald Trump and the aberrant politics he espouses has brought out the worse angels of our nature, it’s notContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP Have Not Ended Their Opposition To An Irish Language Act
As usual the unionist-leaning (or apologising) press in Ireland has pounced on a few questionable claims by Arlene Foster, leader ofContinue Reading
Gaming The Good Friday Agreement By Insisting On A Super-Majority Vote
The core principle of the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and all associated accords is the understanding thatContinue Reading
Joint Authority Or Sovereignty Over The North, A Good Friday Agreement Mark II?
There has been a lot of speculation in recent weeks about the possibility of establishing joint-authority or sovereignty between IrelandContinue Reading
Theresa May And Britain Heads For A Brexit-Mandating General Election
Theresa May, the right-wing prime minister of the United Kingdom and a politician who couldn’t find her country’s legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
A Pan-Unionist Axis Will Be Seen As Electoral Gerrymandering By Northern Nationalists
With the Democratic Unionist Party gnashing its teeth and pointing fingers of blame at Sinn Féin, it seems unlikely that the regionalContinue Reading
Northern Assembly Election Results 2017, A Win For Progressive Nationalism
The final results from Thursday’s vote for the regional assembly in the north-east of the country has ushered in aContinue Reading
#AE17 Northern Assembly Election Results
Still early in the count, lots of transfers and recounts to go, but so far the overall vote has increasedContinue Reading
The Alliance Party Using Facebook To Sockpuppet The News Media
The greatest political challenge for the pro-union Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is one of identity. Ostensibly it is a British unionist grouping, albeit withContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP Deploy Donald Trump Tactics For The Stormont Election
It seems that Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has adopted the electoral playbook of Donald Trump,Continue Reading
Sir Edward Carson And The Politics Of Ulster Unionist Alt-Democracy
Before Donald J Trump, before the politics of the alt-right in the United States, there was Sir Edward Carson and theContinue Reading
Latest LucidTalk – Belfast Telegraph Assembly Poll. Is The DUP In Trouble?
Like many other observers I’m somewhat sceptical about the validity of election polling in the north-east of the country. DespiteContinue Reading
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