Eric Waugh
How we ignored warnings and raced after US into cash crisis
My eight-year-old grandson, who is being brought up in a fast-moving and
expensive suburb of south London (is there any other sort?), asked his
parents at the table the other day: "How long is this credit crunch
going to last?"
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Inside Eric Waugh
Why the chuckling’s all over, but the bickering leaves a chill
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Apace, the dialogue of the deaf proceeds on the hill. Meantime nobody goes
anywhere fast. How long can it continue?
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Look behind you, Gordon, a man’s about to grab your cash
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
On a promise — Gordon Brown will make pledges to voters in his party
conference speech today, but will they be kept?
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Eric Waugh: Why rejection of Antrim mine has hit us very hard in pocket
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
I will not be the most popular man in town if I remind you, as you feed the
gas meter yet again or read your electricity bill, that — ‘We told you so!’
But we did, ‘we’ being the team which was pushing for planning permission to
develop the proposed coal mine and power station in north Antrim.
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Eric Waugh: How brash US politics are rooted in past
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
The Democrats in Denver were loud. The Republicans in Minneapolis are just as
loud, even if they face a curtailed programme because of the hurricane.
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Eric Waugh: How Olympics prove we can’t all come first in the race of life
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
I must confess I did not see much of the Olympics. Blame the clock. But the
bits and pieces I saw in the news I liked.
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Eric Waugh: What Semtex attacks reveal about IRA decommissioning
Friday, 22 August 2008
The use of the Czechoslovakian explosive Semtex in attacks on the police was
once common. It is less so now. In fact, it is not meant to happen. Nor does
it, as a rule. After Colonel Gaddafi supplied large consignments to the IRA
in 1986 and 1987, the manufacturers tightened their security.
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Eric Waugh: Why we can never share Omagh relatives’ grief
Friday, 15 August 2008
You may think you have been there, but you have not. It has only been a proxy
experience. Through the media. You cannot know, really. Unless it has
happened to you. You think you know what it was like. What it would have
been like if you had been doing your shopping that Saturday afternoon on the
fated street of the Tyrone town.
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Eric Waugh: Can you Adam and Eve it? We aren’t know-it-alls
Friday, 8 August 2008
My favourite sticker in the back window of the car in front is the one which
advises: ‘Employ a teenager while they still know everything’. Most young
people would not claim to have all the answers. But a few behave as if they
did.
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What UUP and Tories need is some straight talking
Friday, 1 August 2008
The attempt to restore the old link between the Unionist Party and the
Conservatives is a sound move. A week may be a long time, etc, but all the
current signs are that we may stand within sight of another spell of
Conservative government.
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Eric Waugh: Why Sarkozy will get his EU treaty in the end
Friday, 25 July 2008
After Nicolas Sarkozy's brief and bustling visit to Dublin, I conclude that
our brethren to the south are to live in interesting times.
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Eric Waugh: Pope boxes clever in Anglican’s gay-row
Friday, 18 July 2008
The Pope, in Australia this week-end, is playing a clever hand in his
cautious, long-range intervention in the Anglican row. Apart from his
ecclesiastical status, he also heads a secular state which has its own
international diplomatic corps. It shows.
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Eric Waugh: Only your friends in the South can save EU now
Friday, 6 June 2008
Next week's vote south of the border on the EU treaty may seem a far-off
matter to you. But you should watch it carefully, for in their referendum,
the voters in the Republic have in their hands the only weapon left which
can stop it. If they give it a 'No', it at once is called in question.
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Eric Waugh: What those Belfast buses are doing to your health
Friday, 16 May 2008
If you find yourself inclined to hold your nose as you cross the street
behind a diesel car today, or a bus, van or lorry, take it from me, you are
acting very sensibly. 'Diesel car sales hit new high', screamed the
headlines a few days ago, in response to the announcement that sales of
diesel vehicles had achieved their highest monthly market share.
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The reason we'll soon pay for England's vision of us
Friday, 25 April 2008
When Dimbleby snr was approaching the end of Question Time on BBC1 on
Thursday evening of last week he said that the following week it would be
the London debate. The three candidates for mayor of London would take
questions from the audience. But even before the titles had stopped rolling,
an urgent Northern Ireland voice intervened.
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Minister Ruane needs to be re-educated on social apartheid
Friday, 11 April 2008
Minister Ruane declares that the majority of parents in Northern Ireland
have children at secondary schools and they want to see an end to academic
selection. She claims that grammar school teachers know that change has to
come and adds: "We can't allow social apartheid to continue because
some people have a fear of change." Really?
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What is the life of an Omagh bomb victim worth?
Friday, 4 April 2008
The first question facing the Northern Ireland Office's Compensation Agency
after the atrocity at Omagh 10 years ago was a delicate one. How do you put
a value on the life of a child? The mistake of the agency was to fail to
find the right answer, which — need I tell you? — is that you do not.
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Here's the reason I wouldn't bank on it
Friday, 21 March 2008
Not a good week for the banks. But have you worked out why? The Vatican was
updating the seven deadly sins the other day. But for the banks - and for
you and me, their customers - one of the old ones will do fine: greed.
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If we bin the bags, we won't need ban
Friday, 29 February 2008
The plastic bag is getting it in the neck again. But what would we do
without it? It has become the sheet anchor of our 21st-century civilisation.
The bag lady is the marker of the big American city. I remember once, late
one summer evening, sensing a rustling sound as I passed the miniature hedge
which fringed the front steps of a towering skyscraper in Los Angeles.
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The stinking smell of excess from our politicians
Friday, 22 February 2008
The Paisley drama still has some distance to run. The First Minister is in a
weakened position after the departure of his son. He has relied on his
unique political pedigree to sustain the peculiar constitutional arrangement
at Stormont.
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Forget names and paintings, see the big picture
Friday, 8 February 2008
Time was when I lived on my own in a variety of flatlets, one in the shadow
of the Cumbrian fells; another in south Dublin; a third on the Lake Michigan
shore outside Chicago; and - eventually - a fourth in Belfast. But my home,
where I still parked my youthful junk, was in Strabane in Tyrone. The old
house with the barn and the orchard and hayfield behind, all since
demolished, I believe, to make way for a developer, was off the road leading
north out of the town: the Derry Road.
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• Gail Walker: How we know Mandy can do the business
The return of Peter Mandelson to Gordon Brown's Cabinet — almost certainly as a Lord, no less, has been greeted with howls of derision, disbelief and contempt by the Press. The Return of Lord Sleaze, The Return of Lord Spin, and more sinisterly and magnificently, The Return of the Master of the Dark Arts, are just some of the headlines being bandied about.
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One point from six. That’s Northern Ireland’s tally in the World Cup qualifying campaign so far. Not too healthy, is it?
• Eric Waugh: How we ignored warnings and raced after US into cash crisis
My eight-year-old grandson, who is being brought up in a fast-moving and expensive suburb of south London (is there any other sort?), asked his parents at the table the other day: "How long is this credit crunch going to last?"
• Ed Curran: Why it is time for the GAA to start playing on a wider field
How do you view the GAA today? Not so long ago, such a question might have filled the letters column of the Belfast Telegraph or led to jammed switchboards at the BBC or UTV, if they dared broadcast a match.
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There have been many moments in local politics when we have all been watching the news or reading the paper and found our jaws dropping while we utter: “Did he just say what I think he just said?”
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Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to avoid the use of that poisonous word.
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