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BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
There's been interest on this blog and elsewhere about a meeting organised on Wednesday by Piers Corbyn , the independent UK weather forecaster who argues that the sources of modern-day climate change lie in magnetic interactions around the Earth rather than greenhouse gas emissions on it. So - a genie to your Aladdin, though emphatically not all-powerful - I thought I'd go along. Held at Imperial...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
We’ve had Ian McCrea’s campaign to prevent the Pope visiting Northern Ireland, Iris Robinson’s hate-filled remarks about homosexuals, Sammy Wilson’s climate change denial , Edwin Poots et al with their five thousand year old Earth and Jim Wells versus wifi . But if anyone still harbours a suspicion that the DUP might be remotely connected, by even the flimsiest thread, to the...
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Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
I've just seen Gordon Brown's response to Nick Clegg's questioning in PMQs about the Copenhagen summit and raising the issue that Labour is doing too little (I'd add too late) on the Climate Change. Brown replied that ALL parties should campaign together for a deal at Copenhagen. Strangely that only last week all parties bar one , plus Sammy Wilson of the DUP did vote positively for their own responsibility,...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Some civil servants are missing work when they are not genuinely sick, Finance Minister Sammy Wilson says.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson follows in the footsteps of Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson by being lowered into the biggest hole in Ireland.
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Blonde sagacity (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
In case you missed it, HuffPo is blaming the fact that an all-time low number of Americans now believe that Global Warming is man-made on a group of 18 people. They seem to overlook the simple truth that there is too much evidence to the contrary...like, oh, the globe has been on a cooling trend for the past 11 years... According to HuffPo, the 18 MMGW Deniers are: Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Steve Doocy,...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Have a glance at this charming Facebook group entitled ‘No Pope Here’. It includes such heart-warming (and grammatical) sentiments as, “wats the point him goin ther its basicly a death wish for him its like him sayin KILL ME NOW LOL” and “no pope is welcum here keep him out fgau NO SURRENDER X”. Lovely, I’m sure you’ll agree. Although I must confess that...
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BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
I wasn't in the office yesterday so didn't get blogging about Gordon Brown's £1 billion offer. It's looking definitely good enough for Martin McGuinness, almost certainly good enough for David Cameron and probably good enough for Peter Robinson. However today the TUV's Jim Allister thought he had spotted a sleight of hand in the Prime Minister's package. claiming that any cash drawn from the...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Years ago, long before Slugger, I remember getting to certain points in the political cycle where there seemed no point in following a given story for a few months until something concrete emerged. Long time lapses are a regular feature of Peace Processing™. So I thought I’d been in hibernation too long on Politicking Policing and Justice issue this morning when I heard on the early segment...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The Finance Minister Sammy Wilson says any public sector pay freeze brought in by successive UK governments would impact on Northern Ireland.
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Folks on the Hill starts off on Radio Ulster with Hugh Ordes recurring nightmare: Gerry Kelly as Policing Minister in a parallel universe where Sir Hugh can never leave… Then there’s the recession… This Autumn, if you see only one movie, make sure it’s this one… H/T Percy… 20th Century Folks proudly presents the ultimate disaster movie: Take one devolved Assembly,...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Via Newshound , in the Sunday Times Liam Clarke identifies the black hole in the budget programme for government following NI Finance Minister the DUP’s Sammy Wilson’s admission of a £370million shortfall in next year’s budget as we head into stormy economic weather. From the Sunday Times article The two big parties delayed this admission because it meant conceding that many...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
At this distance in London, I'm getting mixed messages about the future of the Executive. On the one hand, I sit up and take notice when as seasoned a commentator as Ed Curran fears it may be sinking. On the other, when even Sammy Wilson declares the devolution of policing and justice to be a DUP objective , I'm not exactly comforted - there are plenty of gets-outs in that – but I chalk up a modest...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
The DUP took on the mantle of “defenders of Irish sovereignty” in the Northern Ireland Assembly today [I’ll link to the debate when available]. Being debated was a Sinn Féin private members’ motion calling for “an All Ireland economic summit to find alternatives to NAMA and an all-Ireland strategy towards mutual economic recovery” - the party’s statement...
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