Monthly Archives: April 2013

SDLP Communications Manager…Job Opportunity?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

The SDLP ar advertising for a Communications Manager to head up their Media Team. I know what you are all thinking. Why have they not simply approached…me. Well obviously I am more than capable and would do it or half … Continue reading →

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My Big Fat Tory Funeral

Posted on April 17, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I have taken to Muy bed with my iPad. The scourge of retirement is that TV is pretty awful. Right now, all channels seem to rest showing a new Reality show called “My Big Fat Tory Funeral”. Big budget for … Continue reading →

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LetsGetAlongerism Interupted

Posted on April 16, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

We live in a decade which Conflict Resolutionists and LetsGetAlongerists aided and abetted by Historians have mapped out for us. It is The Decade of Centenaries, a series of events to show how much nationalists and unionists have in common … Continue reading →

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The Joy Of Sarcasm…Parsing Judgement

Posted on April 15, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Those of you who watch the comedy “The Big Bang Theory” will know that a recurring joke is the inability of Sheldon (no relation) to understand sarcasm. Thats the thing with Sarcasm. “Do I take that at face value?” “Was … Continue reading →

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Causing Offence…Is It A Civil Right?

Posted on April 14, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Some twenty odd years ago on Remembrance Sunday I was in London and travelled up to Victoria Station to buy a copy of an Irish newspaper. I got on the underground to visit a friend in North London. The only … Continue reading →

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Ding Dong! Jeremy Clarkson

Posted on April 13, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Does anyone sum up the worst aspects of the 21st century more than Jeremy Clarkson? Had we even heard of him ten years ago? Clarkson is little more than a motoring journalist who got lucky. He presents Top Gear with … Continue reading →

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Les Miserables

Posted on April 12, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

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Ding Dong! The Boys Of The Old Brigade?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I have never downloaded any msic in my life so I dont understand all that ITunes stuff…and please dont explain it to me because I dont need to know. But the story of “Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead” is … Continue reading →

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“Sir” Mark Thatcher?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

You may have wondered what Mark Thatcher did to deserve a knighthood. He was not chairman of a Bank which cost the taxpayer billions. Nor did he grow sideburns and win the Tour de France. The truth is that “Sir” … Continue reading →

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“I Come To Bury Caesar…”

Posted on April 10, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

There is a fiction that parliamentary sketch writers like to peddle…that the British House of Commons is at it’s best when it ita speaking with one voice on a great national issue. Simon Hoggart and others are unlikely today that … Continue reading →

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