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Name: P Watterson
Date registered: July 7, 2012

Biography

Teacher with an strong belief in the value of our United Kingdom. Also interested in Central European and Balkan history and politics. Previously edited the "A Pint of Unionist Lite" site and is occasionally a contributor on Slugger O'Toole.

Latest posts

  1. Playing for the shirt, perhaps not the Queen, still makes you Northern Irish — May 8, 2013
  2. Unionism: unrestricted and all access. — March 12, 2013
  3. East Belfast: Despatch from the front line. — January 30, 2013
  4. The logical outworkings of ethno-nationalism’s “100% Irish” policy — December 11, 2012
  5. DUP Conference 2012: Peter Robinson’s speech — November 26, 2012

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May 08

Playing for the shirt, perhaps not the Queen, still makes you Northern Irish

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NI Football

Considering all their well-documented off-the-field financial problems, Glentoran performed magnificently on Saturday in defeating the League Champions Cliftonville 3-1 in the Irish Cup Final. More importantly for the politicians, despite the UK’s National Anthem not being played before the game, the roof at Windsor Park was not struck by lightening or indeed any other form …

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Mar 12

Unionism: unrestricted and all access.

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Liberal Unionist Party

In Orhan Pamuk’s seminal work, “Snow”, the journalist Ka points out to the Islamicist “Blue” why it may be difficult explaining his religious and political philosophy to a German journalist: ‘He (the journalist) takes offense when people discuss the West as if it’s a single person with a single point of view”. Blue thinks about that reply for …

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Jan 30

East Belfast: Despatch from the front line.

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Cluan Place after the attack.

For those of you living elsewhere in the UK watching news footage of the recent loyalist riots, it must have seemed as though the whole city was in a state of permanent turmoil at that moment. It wasn’t.The trouble was highly localised and concentrated mainly on one particular area of inner east Belfast. I know …

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Dec 11

The logical outworkings of ethno-nationalism’s “100% Irish” policy

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Kingsmill Massacre

The Kingsmill massacre was one of the most horrific events of The Troubles. It took place on the 5th January 1976 near the village of Kingsmill in an overwhelmingly Irish Republican area of south Armagh, Northern Ireland. 11 Protestant men were taken from works van by a group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force and murdered. …

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Nov 26

DUP Conference 2012: Peter Robinson’s speech

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Peter Robinson Conference

Unfortunately due to the WiFI collapsing at the La Mon hotel Saturday afternoon, we didn’t get a copy of the party leader, Peter Robinson’s speech until later. Here are my initial thoughts on what he said: For we stand on the verge of a defining period for unionism. The siege has lifted, the Troubles as we …

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Nov 24

DUP Conference 2012: Nigel Dodds’ speech

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Nigel Dodds

Whilst Peter Robinson’s speech is the one that usually gets most coverage, the party’s deputy leader Nigel Dodd’s is also one worth watching for clues about the short term direction and the longer-term strategy of the party. This year, I feel, that there hasn’t been so much of substance; yes, there was an indication of …

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Nov 11

Armistice Day: Remembrance 2012

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Armistice Day Paul Watterson Remembrance

“O’Neill” is the Social Media Editor of Open Unionism, and former author of A Pint of Unionist Lite. An Armistice Day article from a “Northern Irish perspective”; when Henry asked me to write this,  I really wondered what kind material I could contribute which hadn’t been said before. So, rather than from a “N.Irish” point of view, I have …

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Oct 17

Capturing the informational high ground

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From The Economist: Separatists are excited, though the polls are misleading. Whereas one-third of Catalans are convinced separatists, many others are simply enraged by their tax money propping up poorer regions. Also from The Economist: Quebec’s election The separatists are back So…following the precedent, how does The Economist refer to the Scottish campaign for er…separation? …

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Oct 12

Why are the Northern Irish stakeholders in Scotland’s future?

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The “demand” by certain N.Irish political and “community” leaders that they be included in the Scottish Referendum debate has been met with thinly disguised sectarian bigotry from the usual sources and with a much more rational response and reasonable request by a pro-Union Scot: Ulster unionists wishing to be regarded as serious participants in the debate first need to recognise …

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Sep 01

The Young Conway Volunteers, St Patrick’s and… the Union.

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There have been two good articles dealing with the recent trouble outside St Patrick’s church  written in the News Letter during the last week; this from Michael Shilliday and this from Alex Kane. I want to analyse an almost throwaway comment Alex made in his piece  and take it off in another direction : The right to parade …

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