by nabidana | Nov 23, 2015 | Conservatives
The catastrophe of the death by suicide of a young conservative activist earlier this year has opened the Conservative Party to some disbelief and ridicule, particularly in the party’s handling of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding both the...
by nabidana | Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Gregory Campbell, MP and MLA for Londonderry East, enjoys courting controversy on dog-whistle issues in Northern Ireland. He’s good at it – he’s got a lot of wit and can be genuinely funny, but there is a bite and a bitterness to his politics which...
by nabidana | Jan 1, 2014 | this blog
Every so often I reboot this blog, and every so often someone comes along to give me a reason why I should constrain my blogging. I already do. I work for an organisation which has Political views in many areas, and which is led by democratically elected people. Those...
by nabidana | Mar 5, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland, Ireland Election 2011, politics
For reasons which will become more apparent soon, I have decided to give up on coverage of Irish Politics. This blog was never about the politics of Ireland, but in the run up to the General Election 2011, it made sense to get embedded in that. I’ll be...
by nabidana | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
The word Elite has been captured by the left just as our Union flag has been captured by the extreme right. Its use today, more often hissed or screamed out by people on the left of politics, conjures up a mishmash of concepts, almost exclusively assumed to be...
