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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Are we getting a minister of funny walks?

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So Rishi Sunak, the PM, has appointed a TV presenter and newspaper columnist as minister for common sense, or minister without portfolio. I ...
Monday, June 06, 2022

The Jubilee

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The Queen has been on the job for 70 years. That's an unimaginably long time in one job for most of us. Unimpeded by the sort of reorgan...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Out of the Protocol, Into... what?

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 Ulster Unionist Party MLA Steve Aiken said:  "Anyone who has a grasp of the provisions of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement will not...
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Thursday, April 02, 2020

Testing frontline NHS staff for Coronavirus

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Yesterday Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that Hospitals should use spare laboratory space to test self-isolating NHS staff in England fo...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

BREXIT Myths: Can't we just get Brexit done?

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Short answer: No. Longer answer: No. When we leave, we're straight into a decade or so of the  real  Brexit  negotiations. What we...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

BREXIT myths: Do we need the threat of "no deal" to strengthen our negotiating position?

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Short answer: no. Longer answer: Right now we're only negotiating the arrangements for the actual  trade talks. The real negotiation...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

BREXIT Myths: Can't we just leave and get it over?

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Short answer: No. Longer answer: No, we can't. It's wrong on both counts. We can't "just leave", and even if we do...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

No-deal Brexit by Accident?

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Jeremy Hunt says we are heading for a no-deal Brexit by accident . He could be right... If you can believe that...
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Monday, May 22, 2017

Are you a Marxist?

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Sometimes the question you are answering is not what you think. Especially in politics!
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

If we don't vote for a better future, who will do it for us? If not now, when? If not this way, how?

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So here we vote again. Some people are cynical, saying " all politicians are the same - what's the point of voting? " I'...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Labour - what are they for?

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Labour, it seems, needs a new leader. The current one, apparently, is "not electable". But what difference will a new one make? ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

On anger and what to do with it

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When the Referendum result gradually became clear, I was very disappointed. Not by the result so much as by what it said about us as a cou...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Our Disenfranchised Young - Let them be heard

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The EU Referendum was an outrage. The young - who have most to lose - were denied a voice. And to be quite blunt, the old - who voted to l...
Friday, June 24, 2016

DUPed again!

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I am saddened by last night's referendum result. The vote to leave will cause economic damage, it is true. But more seriously, it thr...
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