Tag Archives: Northern Ireland

How to play the long game in 2019, just wait

Last spring I wanted the SNP to agitate for another independence referendum then and there. It would’ve been as catastrophically ill-judged as Brexit’s turning out to be. Can you keep the heid while your opponent loses theirs and parse things … Continue reading

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No Homage to Catalonia.

When I haven’t been killing time mass killing on GTA V online, shopping for Secret Santa prezzies (edible anuses look appetising), or watching Sopranos clips on YouTube (I’d forgotten how bloody funny it was), I’ve been keeping an eye on … Continue reading

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We’ve lost the plot, haven’t we?

It’s a thought that I’ve been slowly coming around to for a while, and then the already tiresome, nauseating EU referendum intensified with tribal, polarised ‘debates’, a batshit crazy, cynical and malicious Orwellian photo-op and an American style political assassination. Then … Continue reading

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The EU apathy

Why do so many people loathe politics? Let’s start with its forms of disingenuous repetition. You know that feeling you get when you see a bunch of junk mail lying at your front door every morning? David Cameron’s series of … Continue reading

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General Election 2015 – The Final Countdown

And so here we are on the verge of a General Election, and yes, this is just what everybody needs, another mouthy dickhead with a blog writing a highly speculative article about it, because there haven’t been nearly enough of … Continue reading

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