Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Alex Kane, in today’s News Letter, whilst taking a side swipe at the DUP, challenges Jim Allister to outline a ‘viable and available alternative’. Alex is of course the UUP’s Director of Communications. He asserts that neither the British or Irish Goverment will agree to enact legislation allowing voluntary coalition which would exclude the largest Nationalist...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Alex Kane responds to Jim Allister`s letter in the News Letter on Saturday, which itself was a response to Kane`s challenge for Allister to outline a realistic and achievable alternative to mandatory coalition. Jim Allister states: “ I and TUV do not accept that we must continue to be the only part of the democratic world where by law you can neither vote a party out of government...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A year ago today I set off for my week's holiday in Paris. Before I left I spoke with the UUP's Alex Kane by phone and we discussed the ongoing refusal of Sinn Fein/IRA to work devolved government due to their childish fit of pique over the devolution of polcing and justice 'powers' (in reality it is nothing more than transferring the budget from London to Belfast as the police will retain...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In his News Letter column Alex Kane emphasises the importance of the SDLP leadership contest to prospects of a constructive, workable Northern Ireland Assembly. In stark terms, if the moderate nationalist party cannot recover and challenge Sinn Féin’s ascendancy, then devolved government will continue along current lines, perpetuating a community tug of war which results...
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... the housing crisis in the United States, the economic recession, and the Obama administration. Alex Kane : Explain the purpose of your trip. Raquel Rolnick : This is an official mission of the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. The Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing was appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council in order to monitor the implementation of...
