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I know who’s to blame for game ending
BBC Northern Ireland has served us well over the years I think. While other regions and networks can often appear amateur and provincial, the quality of its television programmes is usually of an impressively high standard on par with its national equivalents.
Why Maze stadium decision is a blow for integrated sport
So the Maze stadium is dust. I should have listened to my great friend Malcolm Brodie in the first place. After he read my column supporting the Maze project, he told me I was up a gum tree. It would never happen, he said.
German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up to – and failed
His name was Captain Leo Frobenius and he was the German Lawrence of Arabia, tasked to start an Arab Muslim insurgency against British rule in Sudan and Egypt.
Cannabis: it’s time to stop the lies and start a rational debate
It doesn't require a Leap of faith to support the growing calls for a radical rethink of policy on drugs and in particular on the decriminalisation of cannabis.
How the Chinese always make it a White Christmas
While the rest of us were going about our usual small scale climate change recycling business this week — depositing a couple of pasta jars in the bottle bank, knitting a jumper from plastic bags, watering the begonias with used bathwater — China threw caution to the wind and struck a truly thunderous blow against global warming
When money talks, and walks, then retailers have to lose out
You’ve got to feel sorry for many of the retailers south of the border.
Why should I be pressured into wearing a poppy?
It's Poppy Week, which means if you don't wear a poppy all week you're a filthy, dirty, low-life, scummy traitor.
Why it’s v v sad that we don’t talk anymore
Stephen Fry is considering leaving Twitter, following an unpleasant spat with a fellow Twit. Now, I'll fess up that I don't really know what Twitter is. I'm told it's a kind of internet texting thing but I'm not sure.
We're stuck with the Assembly . . . and it's no laughing matter
A few evenings ago the Minister of Health at Stormont, Michael McGimpsey, was to be seen on the television news offering his audience what he termed a 'joke'.
Sacking the expert is not the right way to tackle drugs
Government Ministers and health quangos may as well give up warning about the evils of drugs.
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