by nabidana | May 10, 2015 | Election 2015, politics
Some observations on the most interesting election since Sophia of Hanover. We didn’t call the election this way, no matter how many ‘prescient after the fact’ comments you read in media and online. People, like me, who put a small amount of money on...
by nabidana | May 17, 2011 | Ireland, Northern Ireland, politics, Rugby
As my friend and utterly sound fellow Conservative Andre Walker points out, there is something deeply unimpressive in the logic of Irish dissident republicans planting bombs in their own capital city to protest the visit of a foreign monarch on a state visit. The fact...
by nabidana | Mar 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Just dropped my iPhone 4 in a cup of hot delicious tea. Fuck. # #NUSUK president @AaronPorter giving an excellent speech at #USI11 # Owen Paterson wearing far too nice a suit for Northern Ireland. # Margaret Richie was obviously taught human emotion by a block of...
by nabidana | Feb 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
#BaconFilms A Beautiful Rind # #BaconFilms The Rindside # #BaconFilms Meet Joe Back # #BaconFilms Driving Miss Bacon # #BaconFilms Fry Hard, Fry Harder, Fry Hard With a Vengeance and Fry Hard 4.0 # #BaconFilms Mystic Rasher # #BaconFilms The Danish Connection #...
by nabidana | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have often been wrong in Rugby predictions, so I make this as a general observation that, if Ireland concentrates today on an expansive, quick ball game, the Slam is likely; Wales have only very rarely shown the sort of class Ireland have had consistently. If...