Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a flavour of what the TUV leader Jim Allister has been directing at the DUP in his party’s annual conference address. According to Allister Peter Robinson consulted a doctor (joke) on the wellbeing of his party. Dialogue went as follows: “Is it political swine flu ? ” Peter asked. “No” said the doctor. “Your problem:TUV it is. TUVITIS”...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fair_deal has recently written an excellent article on Open Unionism on things the DUP should do to minimise further damage at the Westminster and Stormont elections. I would disagree with very little of it, though (I suspect like fair_deal) I would like the DUP in addition to move its political stance. The DUP’s discourse about, and attacks on the TUV have always been fairly vitriolic as indeed...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday
In no particular order of bigotry: 1. Ian Paisley in letter to British Home Secretary in September 1969 Telling him the cause of high Catholic...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The report which Sir Christopher Kelly’s Committee on Standards in Public Life published on MPs’ expenses and allowances on Wednesday, as yet, only comprises recommendations. Nick Robinson, on his blog , has set out the likely process for its implementation, during which MPs might, he contends, attempt to ‘smooth off the sharpest edges’ of the proposed reforms. The committee...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Ian Paisley’s abrupt resignation as First Minister came amid secret DUP plotting to ease him out of office, a controversial new book claimed today.
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | yesterday
A very brief post this evening. I'm still shivering after a chilly afternoon in Lurgan. It is worth observing, however, that Jim Allister, in his speech at the TUV conference, devoted his opening remarks to the Conservatives and Unionists, rather than the DUP. There is a New Force in unionism, it is seeking to involve Northern Ireland in national politics rather than move further down the road of Ulster...
Idolator (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last night in the UK, a televised attempt to contact the spirit of Michael Jackson was transmitted to TVs. And people actually watched it! Popjustice's Peter Robinson called it "the worst thing I have ever seen... [yet] strangely arousing"; another blogger noted that whatever Jackson was saying wasn't too important---the cosmos-crossing communication was stopped midway through one of his...
They Got Me Over A Barrel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thank you for sharing your thoughts 'Chris'. This embarrassing obsessive display of monumental ineptitude is truly, really amazing. I can't really believe you rise to the challenge, of your own imagining, of trying to justify your bizarre twisted position... Your postings above sound like steam's coming out of your ears and your eyes have popped out onto your cheeks... where ARE you coming from? The...
They Got Me Over A Barrel (Free subscription) | yesterday
These monikers are some used here by the 'weekend poster' someone who once posted under the alias 'Chris Roberts': David Simpson / Steve Norton / Colin Matlock / Rachael Barnes / JSA Corbett / Mark Ponsonby Smythe / Carpe Jugulum / El Nino's Wet Dream / George Benson / Brian Hayley / Steve Corbett / Delerious / No doubt he has used other monikers as well; these are names I picked up by running back...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The police officers’ union and the DUP have denounced a decision by the PSNI chief constable to go ahead with the scheduled abolition of some 440 so-called Full-Time Reserve officer positions.
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 operational...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The police officers’ union and the DUP have denounced a decision by the PSNI chief constable to go ahead with the scheduled abolition of some 440 so-called Full-Time Reserve officer positions.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport reports the DUP leader Peter Robinson’s response to the threatened sulk by his party’s partner in OFMDFM. From the BBC report [Peter Robinson] said his party will neither submit to blackmail nor negotiate in a climate of blackmail. “I know it is hard for Sinn Fein to come to terms with the new circumstances in which they can no longer bully and...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
DUP leader Peter Robinson says negotiations on devolving justice could come to a halt if republicans resort to "blackmail".
The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Watch Reagan Library discussions today here . George Weigel, Peter Robinson, Michael Rubin, Dinesh D'Souza, and more react to President Obama's decision not to go to Berlin here .
Videos