This posting is liable to be updated as more information comes in.  01.27am. Information is beginning to stream in of a car bomb attack on Palace Barracks, one of the largest British Army bases in Northern Ireland, and the NI headquarters of MI5.  Update: Confirmed by @eamonnmallie 12.20am explosion at rear of barracks. Unconfirmed reports [...]

I’ve decided to do a bit of muck-raking, on the whole ‘making fun of Gordon Brown’ trip.  You know how it is when you get stuck in a creative rut?

I notice that, finally, consideration is being given to whether the Conservative Party should be fully invested in Northern Ireland, and what sort of interaction there should be between the party and the (inaccurately described) province.  I’ve written about this before, when I was to a large extent agreeing with Jeff Peel (full disclosure – [...]

Tuesday, 26 December 2009 4.15am Castle woken by intrusion alarm, as Lord Alderdice tries to ram-raid his way through the security cordon in a JCB.  Eventually talked down by David Forde, and was immediately tazered by angry PSNI officers.  Eventually claimed that Iain Dale had made him do it.

A very similar article to this appeared over a year ago, and I’m glad to have the opportunity to revive it, now I have readers. Apple Announces iProd march CUPERTINO, California—March 11, 2009—Apple® today introduced the all-new iProd® march, the world’s most desirable reformed christian, capable of sustained belief of its superiority over centuries.  The [...]

Monday 25 January, 8.15am Got phone call from Perm Sec’s office, telling me to get to Aldergrove airport and make sure there is no red carpet.  DUP don’t look amused that my tie is green. Apparently thery’ve been up all night practicing the scowl and the ‘never’. 9.30am Apparently they’ve been delayed, and they may [...]

The title should presage a joke, but, to be honest, the impact of the idiot leaders of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom flying to Hillsborough today was nothing short of sickening, as each sought to use the situation in Northern Ireland to deflect attention from their mutually failing regimes each side of [...]

Ironically named Transport Minister Lord Adonis has revealed how the UK road system was being salted in accordance with the Department of Health’s policy on healthy lifestyles. Speaking from a train where for some reason he always is, the Minister explained: “Well, our gritting policy is based on three planks, all of which are recognised [...]

A new section of the blog whereupon we kick the tyres on the stories of the week and work out what lessons we can learn. Labour ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Launch Labour are rather keen on launching dossiers, aren’t they?  As if their intelligence dossier on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction hadn’t been a clusterbang enough, Alistair [...]