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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
I'm no expert in Middle East studies. What I do know about the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza is that, as Petra Marquardt-Bigman notes, comes in the run-up to an election in which a revitalised Likud is squeezing the governing party hard in opinion polls. And that Hamas, despite its apparent embrace of democratic politics, has returned to peppering Israeli civilian targets with missiles since the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
So, Conor Cruise O'Brien is gone . My first memory, as a teenager, of him as a public personality was when he was editor of the Observer, in what seemed to us one of the most prestigious posts in the British newspaper industry. It was a source of some considerable pride that an Irishman could gain such a position beyond the Irish cultural melee. But O'Brien's true value was as a permanent dissenter...
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ConservativesNI.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
By Jeffrey Peel - I was reading a discussion thread on Slugger and came across a contribution by Mick Fealty that, for me, absolutely hit the nail on the head in terms of our political ambitions and what we need to do next as Conservatives and Unionists. Here I’m re-printing (is that the term on [...]
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A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Is up over at Mick Fealty's Telegraph blog , and focusses this week on the Government's plans for tarts and their clients, with which it doesn't seem anyone agrees.
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Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Mick Fealty over at Brassneck has cast his eye over the DUP no-show at the crucial Westminster vote on the setting up of an investigatory committee into the arrest of Damien Green. Ming Campbell's amendment was only defeated by 4 votes. From Mick's article: But there was one whole party missing from the fray. The Democratic Unionist Party have 9 MPs who failed to show on Monday....
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A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Very quick post before I'm off out for a pint. As I've already mentioned, David Cameron is in Belfast town tomorrow and conducting a Q and A session at the ungodly hour of 9.45am. Mick Fealty at Slugger has organised a widget thingy (don't ask me how it works!) for us to twitter (again, don't ask me how it works, it just does) our instant, realtime reactions. The widget is now sitting...
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
This week put together by Mick Fealty .
