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Save the Children’s campaign only proves need to define poverty
Save the Children has launched a campaign within the UK, effectively suggesting that absolute poverty now exists here and that some parents cannot afford to give their children a hot meal every day....
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Belfast On The Move – Credit where it’s due…
I opted to leave most of the comment on the Belfast On The Move project (i.e. the new bus lanes) to Wesley Johnston, who universally talks sense on transport issues. My instincts were always identical...
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Census – the 48%…
It is plain from recent exchanges that they still don’t like to admit it, but the census showed clearly that Unionists are now a minority in Northern Ireland – as this blog put it a fortnight ago, we...
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NI road safety record a staggering achievement
It is difficult not to enter 2013 with a sense of foreboding – both in Northern Ireland and globally (the two being more interconnected than anyone here cares to admit). There are, nevertheless,...
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Attwood’s laws will make roads no safer
I have long suspected the Department of the Environment’s proposed various legal changes – particularly around “graduated driver licensing” and reducing the drink-drive limit – were a complete waste of...
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Unionists fall into Sinn Fein’s trap on parades/past
Nelson McCausland said violence after Friday’s “Republican” parades in Belfast was inevitable. Mike Nesbitt opposed the Castlederg IRA parade with constant reference to, and I quote exactly, “our own...
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Be highly cautious with Northern Ireland “polls”!
I am a big fan of the polling company Lucid Talk which deserves credit for trying to break into a market which simply does not exist in Northern Ireland – namely polling. The company itself has been...
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NI’s “liberal” media really don’t get it, do they?
One political correspondent suggests Peter Robinson’s comments on not trusting Muslims were an “error of judgement”. Only in the Liberal world 10% of us inhabit. Another suggests there was a “backlash”...
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The scourge of retrospective nonsense
“Exit polls are usually [quite reliable], but of course in 1992 they were wrong – the exit polls said a Labour victory, it was actually a Conservative victory” – so said elections expert Anthony Foley...
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Branding: people don’t believe you, even if it’s true
The new Audi A4 “compact executive” saloon is due out early next year. Already the blurbs are appearing in the car magazines about how it will have a “drastically improved driving experience” aimed at...
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Auguri, Richard e Martina!
I miei complimenti a Richard e Martina… congratulations to guest blogger Richard Price and Martina de Gregorio on their recent engagement. I’ve known Richard for some time and had the great honour of...
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A1 fatalties reason for sorrow – and anger
There was a severe accident on the new A8 road between Belfast and Larne on Sunday, in which there was one casualty but no one was killed. The road is built to the highest possible safety standards...
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Time to redouble efforts on Road Safety
The last road fatality in Northern Ireland brought the total this year to equal to the total for the whole of 2013 – in other words, by mid-October as many people had lost their lives on our roads as...
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Media still don’t understand referendum result
The biggest issue with the referendum result is not, in fact, what now happens with regard to the UK’s relationship with the EU, but who governs the UK and with what legitimacy. The media continue to...
View ArticleIdentity politics work – sadly
In the UK yesterday, many people from the “Remain” end of the spectrum expressed disbelief that UK passports will be blue from October 2019. Some, the current author included, noted that they were not...
View ArticleWorst thing Brexit demonstrates? Rampant “classism”
I still intend to make very little political comment on this blog, as there is very little more about it to say. Any rational person can see that the English-speaking world has succumbed to crazed...
View ArticleCoronavirus – better an admission of failure than a pathetic cover-up
“It’s the cover-up that gets you, not the issue” said Nixon, about his resignation. Politicians seem very unwilling to learn the lesson half a century on, however. The UK was in fact quite well...
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Coronavirus – Keep it simple on Cummings
One of the reasons Left Liberals lose a lot is that they don’t know how to keep things simple. It was made very clear, by the Prime Minister himself, that everyone had a civic responsibility not to...
View ArticleCoronavirus – podcast
Was good to join Slugger O’Toole for a podcast on the Coronavirus, the Northern Ireland Executive’s response and some international comparisons on YouTube.
View ArticleCoronavirus – blog review
As I will no doubt be reducing my writing on the subject next month, I thought it worthwhile to summarise some of the points made on this blog so far with regard to the new Coronavirus; I also made...
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