Tag Archive: East Belfast Diary

Jan
17

‘Best of the Web’

eyeonthehill

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 …

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Nov
14

'Best of the Web'

Screenshot from Burke's Corner

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 …

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