Latest Best of the Web column from the News Letter’s Political Review on Friday
By Owen Polley
The southern Irish election and unrest in the Middle East dominated headlines this week, but at A Pint of Unionist Lite meatier matters were on the menu.
Tag Archive: A Tangled Web
Feb
08
Best of the Web…
From last Friday’s political review section in the News Letter …
Big issue on the blogs this week? Corporation tax and the general election in the Republic of Ireland. But first to corporation tax…
Jan
17
‘Best of the Web’
By Geoff McGimpsey Happy new year! So 2011 has arrived… bringing with it a fully blown water crisis, a VAT rise and the death of Gerry Rafferty. January truly is the most miserable of all months. Despite Laurence MacKenzie’s departure, the catastrophe of NI Water is threatening to engulf the devolved Executive. The principle that …
Nov
14
'Best of the Web'
This article first appeared in the News Letter on Friday November 12… By Geoff McGimpsey This week came the declaration from George Bush that water-boarding was a good thing. As ever, George put his policy forward in the style of cowboy anti-hero Alan Ladd. So when asked at his book launch if water-boarding was okay, he …
Top 25 NI Blogs (No. 21)
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Twitter: @openunionism
- @buachailldana1 *Minority* language funding is writing your own amt on invoice, all across EU. Ulster Scots is merely joining gravy train.
- Protestant pupils don’t speak Ullans : http://t.co/xscZNDEo
- @Askinner2011 Cheers for the link, Henry kept uncharacteristically quiet on that one;)
- My co-editor on Open Unionism tells it like it is;) : "Yes to the UK" http://t.co/qNEul4fr via @studentjournals
- OK, numbers are relatively small but still- "More Irish enlisting in British army even as losses in Afghanistan grow": http://t.co/oz60Yd1Q
- That didn't last long: http://t.co/HCcb9afS: http://t.co/OyajwtSp
- The Open Unionism Daily is out! http://t.co/u3fmvYNB ▸ Top stories today via @sallynicoll @markdevenport @news_letter @pmynes @ni_crc
- Scottish iseparation: "Country would lose warship contracts" -: http://t.co/ll8wvEEe
- @siema_skip "you'd be British all you like". Oh, thank you. With regards your question-yes, mistakes were made. And?
- @siema_skip You deny my and others born in N.Ireland's right to Britishness? What gives you that right to dictate my national identity?