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An excuse to do nothing
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When the thin blue line becomes a garrote
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Providing a useful sex education
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A mirrored darkness
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Brassed off
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Posts Tagged ‘Northern Ireland’
Letting go of the past
Though there were some protests when the Queen visited Ireland, the nation mainly welcomed her with open arms. Can Wales learn any lessons from this mature approach to former oppressors?
Allowing politics to succeed
Shaun Woodward is the longest serving Labour Northern Ireland Secretary. With the last piece of devolution now in place, does he think now is the time to merge his department with that of Wales and Scotland’s?
What’s to stop the Department of the Nations now?
With policing in Northern Ireland passed to Stormon, there seems little rationale for preserving three separate territorial offices for the devolved nations. Ironically, The Wales Office might now have the best reason to stand alone
In praise of boring politics
This week’s historic agreement on the completion of devolution in Northern Ireland was greeted with more of a disinterested grunt than a cheer. Good, says one of those at the centre of the original Belfast Agreement negotiations in 1998
Mo show for Murphy
The Mowlam drama-doc omitted the Welshman at the heart of the Northern Ireland peace process
My flabber is gasted – UPDATED 22/01/10
Last weekend I blogged on Iris Robinson and my lack of sympathy for her situation. One thing I did not touch on was the financial question mark hanging over her which was expertly pinpointed in both the Spotlight programme from Northern Ireland and also by Panorama. Print and broadcast media have since spent time dissecting [...]
Now is the time for us to work together
Ireland’s current economic crisis should also be a concern for Wales, and this week’s meeting of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly provides the perfect place to start pooling our expertise – and experience in devolution – to find solutions that suit the Celtic nations
A meander around the constitutional crossroads
Patrick Hannan’s latest book “A Useful Fiction” provides brain food for those willing to question their identity and the role of Britishness within it. But it does not – and cannot – answer the big question about the UK’s constitutional crossroads
The concilliator
Peace in Northern Ireland is arguably New Labour’s greatest achievement. Yet, despite his crucial role in bringing it about, Paul Murphy has been twice reshuffled out of Government. Does that say more about the man, or his party?
We have the expertise – let’s use it
Thirty years in civil conflict in Northern Ireland has given the British state vital expertise in addressing the spread of radical Islam, so why is the government reluctant to make reconciliation part of its strategy?
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