Author Archives: fitzjameshorse

Don’t PSNI Ever Talk To Each Other?

Posted on January 7, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Now here is an odd thing. The PSNI are seemingly not very sure who is behind all this rioting. There MIGHT be paramilitary involvement. Yet the Police Federation which representhe police officers states openly that the UVF is involved. It … Continue reading →

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No……Not An Attack On Democracy

Posted on January 6, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I never really get the rhetoric that this “is an attack on Democracy”. Democracy is an abstract kinda thing. When politicians refer to attacks on Democracy, they are unwittingly detracting from the fact that violence is directed against PEOPLE….flesh and … Continue reading →

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Pomp And Circumstance

Posted on January 3, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

A House divided? On Slugger O’Toole…Brian Walker takes a swipe at the BBC for unionist bias (I know!!! I know!!!!) in their treatment of that whole Martin McGuinness resignation story…the resignation being deemed less important than the arcane procedures whereby … Continue reading →

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21st Century Disaster Ahead???

Posted on January 3, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Here’s a cheery thought. For two successive nights, I watched a two part made for (British)TV disaster movie. Called “Flood”, it had a pretty good cast….Robert Carlyle, David Suchet and Tom Courtenay….yet bop or special effects and probably a plot … Continue reading →

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Cats Are Like Comets?

Posted on January 2, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I am not a big fan of Astrology……..well I am a typical Taurus I guess…….so I rarely read the Astrology threads on rival websites. Yet I was struck by the recent headline on Slugger O’Toole that “Comets are like Cats” … Continue reading →

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The Metro-Textual

Posted on January 1, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Having failed miserably to get “letsgetalongerism” and “the political overclass” into the Oxford English Dictionary, I am trying again with……..”Metro-Textual”. I hope it is original. What is a Metro-Textual???? Well ……..let me put it this way. Being a political anorak … Continue reading →

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Annual Report Card

Posted on January 1, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I did not know that WORDPRESS sent out an annual report. I do not recall this from last year, possibly because it was hardly worthwhile . In the period August 2011-January 2011, I  would have been lucky to get twenty views … Continue reading →

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Roll On 2014!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Its 31st December 2012 and I am bored with 2013 already. Considering taking bets on how many times Dimbleby gets to say “UK City of Culture” and Sheldon gets to say “Londonderry” in the next twelve months.

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Nothing LIke A Dame

Posted on December 31, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

It is hard to think of the title”Dame” without thinking Widow Twanky and Mother Goose…especially in pantomime season. So the elevation of Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary whoop could not quite bring herself to condemn Israel on one of their … Continue reading →

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“No…I Am The Steward of the Manor of Northstead”

Posted on December 31, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I am entirely neutral on the issue of “abstention” at Westminster. I voted Sinn Féin from 1993-2009 so it would hardly have bothered me if the Sinn Féin candidate had won and refused to take his/her seat. And I have … Continue reading →

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