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A new beginning 4 Jan 2013 | 10:34 pm
Two big decisions for the New Year: I have decided to leave the Labour Party and join the Green Party. I'm also winding up East Belfast Diary. I have been involved with the Labour Party on and off th...
Blowin’ in the wind 5 Dec 2012 | 11:09 am
At a time of rising unemployment, welfare ‘reform’, and an economic situation that’s continuing to deteriorate, what is the issue that has brought people out onto the streets and caused public disorde...
March for Marie Stopes Belfast 8 Nov 2012 | 08:48 pm
The Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast has now been open for a few weeks and continues to need the support of everyone who believes in a woman’s right to choose. Marie Stopes has asked supporters not to s...
Time for Opsahl 2? 29 Oct 2012 | 01:39 am
Labour in Northern Ireland has responded to the consultation document on improving the operation of the Northern Ireland Assembly, which closed this week. The consultation document was an exercise in ...
On message 12 Oct 2012 | 01:41 am
'What's the name of that little place over there, where we don't want to get our hands dirty with electoral politics?' There’s a pretty consistent message coming out of the Shadow Cabinet on standin...
Don’t be that guy 7 Oct 2012 | 07:05 pm
As a university lecturer, of course I know what students get up to when they’re not studying – not that I hear it from any of my own students. Of course they drink. Of course they have casual sex and ...
One Nation? 4 Oct 2012 | 04:10 am
Unlike some, I wasn't that taken with Ed Miliband’s One Nation speech yesterday. Northing I could put my finger on, just a vague suspicion that it wasn't very... um.... Labour-ish. A sense that, for d...
My Olympics 15 Aug 2012 | 04:47 pm
Katie Taylor winning Gold for Ireland..... I am the world’s least sporty person and not very keen on jingoistic nationalism either, so you might think I’d have spent the last fortnight or so hiding u...
Music across borders 29 Jul 2012 | 04:51 am
I've been contacted by Emily Mervosh, a student at Boston College who is coming to Ireland next month to make a documentary about the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland. She originally got in touch as ...
Let’s stop pretending about CSI 25 Jul 2012 | 03:31 am
Much consternation last week (again) about the long-delayed Cohesion, Sharing and Integration programme. On Wednesday, the First and Deputy First Ministers announced that they had made some unspecifie...
