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The “Middle” Does Not Deserve To Succeed

Posted on December 21, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The “Middle”…dontcha just love it? The fluffy kittens of Norn Iron Political Life. They have been attacked recently. They are unused to it. I deplore the attacks on the Alliance Party. I also deplore attacks on the DUP, UUP, SDLP … Continue reading →

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Some Days Are Diamonds

Posted on December 19, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

As John Denver put it “some days are diamonds…some days are stones”. Today was one of thodial diamond Days. At 2.30pm, my #1 son and his wife had a baby daughter, our third surviving grandchild and fourth overall. The baby … Continue reading →

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Just 54,000 Babies

Posted on December 19, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The Census revealed that the population is 48% Protestant and 45% Catholic. That looks significant but closing gap. Yet apparently it is a difference of 54,000 which does not seem that big at all. As the Unionist population is getting … Continue reading →

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The Flegs Issue Gets Farcical

Posted on December 18, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I almost choked on my Corn Flakes (yes I like a late night snack) watching the UTV News tonight. Did you see that strange woman with the massive Union Jack bow in her hair? Thankfully UTV singled her out to … Continue reading →

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A Word From Our Sponsors

Posted on December 16, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

My campaign to form a new political party and have eight MLAs elected to the Stormont Assembly received a boost today when I received the gift of some CHOCOLATE MONEY. Yes that’s right…….chocolate money…..innocent money…….Quaker money (Cadbury’s are Quakers too … Continue reading →

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Peace Rally??

Posted on December 16, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I suppose if you are going to have a mass Rally for Peace outside Belfast City Hall, then nine days before Christmas….and peoples shopping progress already delayed by ten days of loyalist “protest”…..is the wrong time to actually have it. … Continue reading →

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Dudley-DoRight

Posted on December 16, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Briefly return to Pat Finucane……just to note that Ken Magennis and Ruth Dudley Edwards are among those suggesting that Pat Finucane came from an “IRA family” and/or was a “servant of the IRA”. On the general subject of the IRA. … Continue reading →

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“Yer Own’s The Worst”

Posted on December 15, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Nearly everyone in Norn Iron will be familiar with the phrase “yer own’s the worst”. We have two (arguably three) tribes here. Basically “R-wuns” and “Themmuns”. The theory is that one of “Themmuns” makes a better colleague, boss than one … Continue reading →

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Pat Finucane

Posted on December 12, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

One of the first blogs I ever posted here on the “Czar” was a report on a Platform for Change event in the Black Box in Belfast (September 2011). The event took the form of monologues from five women who … Continue reading →

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Lies, Lies And Creative Ambiguity

Posted on December 12, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Most of the readers of this Blog will know that I do not care very much for Creative Ambiguity. I prefer to think that (allegedly for the Common Good) the Good Friday Agreement was sold to nationalists on the basis … Continue reading →

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