Date registered: July 7, 2012
May 17
Stephen Goss is the newly-elected Chairman of Northern Irish Conservative Future. He’s a Roman Catholic from Andersonstown, a doctoral student at the Queen’s University of Belfast, and a former member of the Ulster Unionist Party. Follow him on Twitter @StephenGossNICF I attended Basil McCrea and John McCallister’s event about their (so far nameless) party’s policies …
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May 02
In January Open Unionism’s editor, Henry Hill, took up a weekly column with popular website Conservative Home, discussing the Union, devolved politics and related issues from an explicitly Conservative perspective. The column is published every Wednesday. Linked below are his April columns, with previews. (24/04/13) Scottish independence may mean no Scottish banknotes Another of the …
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“Pearl of Tyburn” is one of our readers from the US. She runs Union Jack Chat and authors the blog “Longbow and Rosary Beads”. She has kindly provided us with the biographies of the United Kingdom’s four national saints on their respective days. The Story of St. George George is said to have been born in the …
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David Wildgoose simply describes himself as “English” and is a former vice-Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament. . One of the seemingly intractable problems we have is that both communities within Northern Ireland have developed what can only be described as a “siege mentality”. It leads to a situation whereby there is automatic …
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Sammy McNally is an itinerant Fenian scribbler… and a fictional prod character bestowed upon us by James Young. He has previously written for other blogs such as BangorDub, Three Thousand Versts and Slugger O’Toole. He describes his politics as “Republican lite”. It is highly likely that Margaret Thatcher’s name will crop up at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, but highly …
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Dr John Coulter is a ‘Radical Unionist’ commentator and former columnist for the Blanket. He writes for the Irish Daily Star. . ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out, Out Out!’ That was a popular chant of the late 1980s. But that chant was not heard at a republican rally or a miners’ demonstration. This chant was being …
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Ben Wilson is a Labour Member from the West Midlands, currently studying for his Masters in Psychology. He believes unionism is important since it has united the people of the British Isles and has left us all with a shared culture and history. Ever since the SNP announced that they would push for the voting …
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In March Open Unionism’s editor, Henry Hill, took up a weekly column with popular website Conservative Home, discussing the Union, devolved politics and related issues from an explicitly Conservative perspective. The column is published every Thursday. Linked below are his March columns, with previews. (28/03/13) Prohibition, SNP style… Last week, I mentioned as an aside …
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Dr John Coulter is a ‘Radical Unionist’ commentator and former columnist for the Blanket. He writes for the Irish Daily Star. Ever since high-profile MLAs Basil McCrea and John McCallister quit the slowly dwindling Ulster Unionists, a number of questions have remained unanswered. Primarily, can the already heavily fragmented Unionist family sustain yet another Unionist …
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“Pearl of Tyburn” is one of our readers from the US. She runs Union Jack Chat and authors the blog “Longbow and Rosary Beads”. Here’s a toast to my ancestors from Co. Cavan in the present-day Republic of Ireland . They came to America to start a new life after the tragedy of the Potato Famine, and …
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