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Eric Waugh

Truth was the first casualty of this war, but it wasn’t the last

I did not expect anything more than a damp squib to splutter and die when Tony Blair faced the Chilcot inquiry.
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Inside Eric Waugh

Marching to a different beat has us on paths that will never meet

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

The current hassle at Stormont is so much par for the course. We have been here before. So many times. The two parties in dispute are supposed to be sharing government.
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Horse first, then cart ... it’s time nationalists got real about unity

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

No political regime likes uncertainty. Talk of unexpected elections makes politicians twitchy. Meal tickets can be put at risk.
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The next six weeks will tell if Peter is waving ... or drowning

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

I had been on foot in the snow on the shores of Windermere most of the day last Friday and, come evening, after having something to eat, had put my feet up in a comfortable old hotel nearby.
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Now we must pay the price for spending what we did not have

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

If you are a banker in January 2010, you say you are something else. Like financial adviser. Or broker.
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One thing is for sure: 2010 is not going to be the Year of the Tiger

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

As the Chuckle Brothers act gives way to its less cordial successor, 2010 will dawn as a make-or-break year for the Northern Ireland parties.
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Eric Waugh: 2009 - the more things change, the more they remain the same

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

This is the Christmas on the never-never. The Government is on tick. Eat, drink and be merry - for tomorrow . . .
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Browned off: now the ordinary Joe is planning to take revenge

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Joe is not rich in terms of the figures bandied about these days; though many of the bitter victims of Gordon Brown's crunch, who have lost jobs and even homes, would think he is.
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Is it worth putting power-sharing in jeopardy for a will-o'-the-wisp?

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Most governments exist, day to day, in an atmosphere of crisis, actual and potential. The skill of prime ministers lies in concealing it.
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Why clerical sex abuse probe must recognise no boundaries

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

It was in the 1970s that the Irish bishops of the Roman Catholic Church were having one of their regular meetings in St Patrick's College, Maynooth. On these occasions they were provided with an ample luncheon.
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We need united team in green to banish the World Cup blues

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Big-time sport is now a business before it is a game. We enjoy the spectacle. But we pay the price.
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Putting our heroes first? Now you are speaking my language

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Walcome tae the Scottish Pairlament. Ye hae mony weys tae mak yir views kent whan ye hae strang feelins aboot issues.
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Danger for Brown when public's puzzlement at war turns to fury

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Afghanistan's daily agony means that Remembrance Day is now very much a sorrow for this generation.
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We're stuck with the Assembly . . . and it's no laughing matter

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

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'.
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Why the Pope shouldn't count on being welcomed with open arms

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

You can call them Anglo-Catholics, or 'traditionalists', or just conservatives, but for high churchmen in the Church of England the door leading to Rome has long been ajar.
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Labour's guilty secret: BNP is a result of drift on immigration

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

The brouhaha over the coming appearance of the egregious Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday night is interesting.
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Why Protestant schools pose a test of the Republic's democracy

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

When I discuss the position of Protestants south of the border, invariably I receive indignant letters - from southern Protestants - which insinuate "How dare you!"
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Eric Waugh: Just what dark plots are going through Mandelson's mind now?

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

With the Republic's big 'Yes' vote on the Lisbon Treaty on Friday, the great Mandelson-Brown-Blair political game took another hefty lurch forward - and David Cameron, up to his neck in the tensions of party conference week, knows he can do little to stop it.
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How Euro Treaty may create a brand new generation of rebels

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

On Friday our neighbours across the border are set to vote Yes to the Lisbon Treaty.
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Did republicans pull a fast one when putting arms beyond use?

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

The jailing of three republicans in a Belfast court last week is said to provide the pretext for riotous behaviour in Lurgan. But the significance of the case for the peace process lies, not so much in the juvenile burning of cars, as in the detail of what the men were jailed for. They were arrested for possessing a mortar, the charges for which contained the powerful Czech explosive, Semtex.
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