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One of the more famous political terms is that of the Potemkin Village. A Potemkin Village is ‘… in its original meaning, any ...
By the time you read this the annual Russian victory parade may have taken place in Moscow. It is now eighty years since the ...
The Irish News reports that a Free Presbyterian minister recently came out and said that Pope Francis is “most certainly an ...
I read that the Police Ombudsman has found that the RUC failed to arrest or interview 11 individuals who had been identified ...
Every time I do a panel; there’s always a smart alec in the crowd. A man, usually. Without doubt he will say, “Yeah, but the ...
There’s been a lot of discussion over the years regarding Kneecap, and I thought I’d add my tuppence worth to the debate.
We took tough but right decisions in the budget… because we inherited a broken economy,’ said Starmer today after a close ...
I had a vision. A premonition of approximately twenty years into the future: DJ Próvai, his balaclava thrown aside, has just ...
Mark Durkan (then SDLP leader) coined the phrase ‘ugly scaffolding’ to refer to the ungainly political architecture which ...
Earlier this morning the humanitarian aid ship Conscience, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was attacked by drones ...
Donna Moore is from Belfast, and works as an administrator. Northern Ireland remains an outlier in the field of assisted ...
I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not ...