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Sorting out the political mess we are in… (opens the original)
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This thorough analysis by leading academics in the field, Sean Haughey Jon Tongue and Ben Rosher concentrates first on preventing Assembly breakdown and the cosmetic reform of joint First Ministers the agenda recommended by the SDLP now apparently been pursued by the Secretary of State. Later it argues as I do for more open process for reform rather than the previous hot house sessions behind closed doors like the Stormont House Agreement and New Approach. Overall the analysis is pessimistic abo
Mike Nesbitt’s resignation is a disaster that will be probably ignored (opens the original)
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Mike Nesbitt’s sudden resignation goes to the heart of what’s wrong with how Northern Ireland is governed. Modest hopes for limited success have been dashed. If systems and attitudes don’t change, the crisis in the health service and others like it will never significantly improve. Independent report after expert report has spelt out loud and clear that if every hospital retains its present range of specialisms, resources cannot be concentrated effectively to deliver timely major treatment for p
Gloria, Queen of the entertainment shows. A career celebrated (opens the original)
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A bit late but still time to catch up with Gloria: my life on TV on iPlayer, the ultimate accolade of a Gloria Hunniford Night on BBC FOUR last Saturday. It features a set of shows including an interview with film star Audrey Hepburn, a chat show standing in for her network mentor Terry Wogan and an appearance singing on the Val Doonican show. The decades around the turn of the millennium reached the high point of MOR (middle of the road) chat and companiable light music on radio and TV before t
Verdict on the Fleadh Cheoil, Belfast’s first ever. A triumph… (opens the original)
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Newton Emersons’s verdict in the Irish Times can hardy be bettered as a rare and heartening cross community success … Pleasant streets can only partly explain the numbers in the city centre. What unionist visitors are discovering is that the Fleadh is not repellingly “political”, as that term is applied in Northern Ireland. Culture is always political, of course, but the songs are not sectarian, the atmosphere is not partisan and the national symbolism is discrete. I noticed only one Tricolour i
Unionist paranoia over the Donaldson scandal might result in throwing themselves over a cliff. There is a better way (opens the original)
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From hot house London (figuratively as well as literally)., I’m dismayed but no longer surprised that the trend of unionist opinion over the still unfolding Donaldson scandal may be diverting from the cul de sac of the DUP to the black hole of TUV. I’m picking this up from Andy Pollak’s post where he speculates on the likely impact of the extent of the scandal on the DUP’s fortunes at the next Assembly election. What the DUP establishment knew and what they may have covered up is naturally enoug
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