by nabidana | Aug 28, 2015 | Northern Ireland
When did the IRA say it was going away? When did the ‘Ra announce it was dissolving and disappearing and not being a thing anymore? I couldn’t remember, but surely the DUP must remember it happening, otherwise why would it appear to be surprised that the...
by nabidana | Aug 26, 2015 | Northern Ireland
The decision of the Ulster Unionist Party to seek to withdraw from the piss-weak simulacrum of government in Northern Ireland is not an indication of a party having finally rediscovered its moral and political purpose – or if it is, it’s an indication of a...
by nabidana | Dec 3, 2014 | Northern Ireland
Sinn Féin and the DUP may not agree on much, but one thing they do agree on is the exercise and maintenance of political power. Theirs is a murky, unpleasant world, an agreed apartheid where each is content to wield influence and control over their own ghettoised...
by nabidana | May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tom Elliott must now be forced by the Ulster Unionist Party to resign. With the settling of dust like so many dissident republican town centre bomb attacks, it is vital that the UUP considers who its voters actually are, and whether the views of the party leader is...
by nabidana | Oct 3, 2010 | politics
Basil McCrea made a lot of enemies in his early Assembly career, mostly by being reasonable, collegiate and friendly; this is rarely the way anyone seeking to be elected UUP leader would like to be introduced to the casual onlooker, but so it was that he fought and...
