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Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Farah Stockman Globe Staff Shaun Woodward, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, met today with Congressman Richard E. Neal to thank him for helping to nudge the peace process in Northern Ireland along into its final stages. "He has been...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Brian Feeney, historian of Sinn Fein, Round Britain Quiz panellist and Irish News columnist, is gloating over the perceived discomfiture of Peter Robinson as he tries to find firm ground in his troubled party. The latest pimple Brian has been picking at is the police reserve issue which actually appears to have been finessed. Peter seems to working his way through the divisive issues one by one. He...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
“It could yet go wrong. Get in and say to the politicians to get in and finish it off.” The words of a worried Shaun Woodward appealing last week to civic and church leaders to basically ask Peter Robinson to remove what the British and Irish governments see as DUP roadblocks on the way to completing the process of devolution. The Irish administration accepts that Sinn Fein has got close...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
By Mathew Hulbert / @mathewhulbert Watching BBC Question Time this week I was struck by how all too many of our politicians these days are, to use the phrase of a fellow Tweeter, 'political pygmies'. Shaun Woodward seemed, at times, to have trouble defending this Government's record on a number of issues. For the Tories Dame Pauline Neville Jones mumbled her way through some mediocre answers. The...
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Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
David Dimbleby will miss Question Time tonight for the first time in 15 years after an unfortunate accident involving his wife’s bullock. The press statement reads: David Dimbleby will not be chairing Question Time this week – the first he has missed in over 15 years – but he will return next week. John Humphrys will temporarily take the chair tonight. David Dimbleby was injured yesterday...
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Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
It's #bbcqt day again and as usual the Live Chat on this blog will start tonight at 10:30pm. The panel will include Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Shaun Woodward, the Conservative shadow security minister Pauline Neville-Jones, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on communities and local government Julia Goldsworthy, the cultural commentator and writer Will Self and the rowing champion, double...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Back in September the former Alliance European candidate, Ian Parsley, suffered some embarrassment when he e-mailed out a "holding statement" related to a newspaper claim that he was about to defect, but forgot to remove another e-mail which confirmed he was already deep in discussions with the Conservatives. Now Mr Parsley's former leader, David Ford, has got himself into another e-mail...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Shaun Woodward has told local church and civic leaders to bring this message to politicians in Parliament Buildings: “Get on and seal the deal.” He clearly has the DUP in mind as that part continues to block the devolution of policing and justice. Already Peter Robinson and his colleagues have made the abolition of the Parades Commission and the retention...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
That is the message to civic and religious leaders from Secretary of State Shaun Woodward. Mr Woodward has been speaking to key decision-makers in the community at a reception in Hillsborough Castle. He wants influential voices in the community to tell politicians devolution must be completed. Mr Woodward reminded the DUP of the dangers of delaying the transfer of policing and justice powers. More...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The IRA are about to begin a new campaign of violence - judges are stepping up security , for fear of being targeted. It's not surprising at all. It is the Labour Government who would be to blame for the deaths of any judges. It was lulled into this by an IRA "permanent" ceasefire: not realising, or not wanting to realise, that a ceasefire was only as "permanent" as the criminals...
Calling England (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
*With apologies to Rodgers & Hart After one half-hour of banter Hedge and backwards spring to mind The PM was in a ranter Reeling tractor stats purblind. We're wild again He's reviled again He's a simpering, whimpering child again With Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered on side. Labour's - finis Favours - finis The cash that you stole from our tax - finis Bewitched, bothered and bewildered no...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Last month I expressed a degree of scepticism about the argument that an agreement on devolving justice would help to meet the dissident threat. Today the Independent Monitoring Commission has reported on the growing nature of the dissident challenge. The IMC has backed the argument that an early agreement would help combat the dissidents by claiming it "could provide a potent intervention. This...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport mentions it in his return to blogging , and there’s a very short BBC report , but here’s part of what Mark had to say at the start of Stormont Live about today’s Assembly and Executive Review Committee meeting to discuss policing and justice powers. “There has also been, apparently, a move from the committee to bring forward a motion to...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I've returned to my cupboard in the Stormont basement, playing catch up on all I have missed - a DUP rethink on double jobbing, a £20 million payment for the part time reserve and a row over replacing the Parades Commission. Double jobbing should be back in the news tomorrow when Sir Christopher Kelly publishes his report on MPs' expenses. The report will have a specific Northern Ireland chapter,...
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Tonight we'll be asking why the Ministry of Defence put financial savings before safety following the publication of a devastating, independent report into the fatal 2006 Nimrod crash. Fourteen crewmen died when the aircraft blew up after air-to-air refuelling over Kandahar when leaking fuel made contact with a hot air pipe. Charles Haddon-Cave QC, the author of the report, said that the government...
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