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The Longest Journey…And A Single Step

Posted on July 25, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

I feel like a new phase of my life is beginning tomorrow. For a long time, I have wanted to travel all around Ireland. Of course, I have done this before. I reckon that I have been in every town … Continue reading →

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“Behind Every Successful Man…”

Posted on July 23, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

“Behind every successful man…is a surprised woman” (Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada). This is probably true. Probably the wife of every successful politician sits thu speeches thinking “dear GOD, why do people vote for him?”. … Continue reading →

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Join SDLP…If You’re Young Enough!

Posted on July 23, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

First of all, I am not necessarily recommending that any reader join the Party of which I am a supporter and member. Nor do I discourage it. They are a fine group of people. I am making a broader point. … Continue reading →

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Cold Turkey

Posted on July 18, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

There is one golden rule about military coups. If you start one…you must win one. And thats how the coup in Turkey will be remembered. The plotters plotted. The plotters lost. I do not like Turkey very much. It is … Continue reading →

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Nice, France

Posted on July 16, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

What can I say? Dallas was last week’s story and Nice is this week’s story. Next week……? Nice hits us hard. My enduring memory of The Troubles is that each breaking news story was a reaction “it could have been … Continue reading →

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Dealing With The “Bully Boys”

Posted on July 14, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

Last week at the Wellington Park Hotel in Belfast, I saw a man of my age who was wearing a red button “Stand Up To Bullying”. There was a big anti-bullying day last week. “Bullying” seems to be flavour of … Continue reading →

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A Toxic Environment

Posted on July 12, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

So after midnight. And bonfires are burning. You may think that this is all about HATE. Turns out its ….CULTURE. What exactly can Society do about it? Well …nothing. Because its loyalist CULTURE and we are contractually obliged by the … Continue reading →

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The Labour Leadership Chicken Coup

Posted on July 11, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

If you are looking for anyone to blame for the chaos in the British Labour Party …look no further than Ed Miliband. By any standards, he was a decent bloke, a professional Islington type who landed a safe seat in … Continue reading →

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May And Loathsome

Posted on July 9, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

There is a lot of nonsense talked about life in 1950s and 1960s West Belfast. Nostalgia gives us a lot of clichés…”close knit communities”, “people who were the salt of the earth”, “give you the shirts off their backs” and … Continue reading →

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#We Are The 56

Posted on July 6, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

As I actually voted to LEAVE (EU Referendum) I cannot claim any membership of this “hashtag”. The percentage of voters in Norn Iron who voted REMAIN is 56 per cent. I was at a SDLP organised meeting at the Wellington … Continue reading →

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