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Gail Walker
Why we’ve had enough of all the party games
By the time you read this, the chances are that Peter and Martin will have
announced ‘Peace In Our Time'.
Comments: 6
Inside Gail Walker
Supermarkets are off their trolleys over pyjamas
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Get off the backs of the PJ. It’s the new witch hunt. Not so long ago, it was
hoodies, before that it was shell suits, and before that Doc Martens. What
do they have in common?
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What’s odd about Paisley praying with McGuinness?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
So why the shock and surprise at the news that the Rev Ian Paisley prayed
alongside Martin McGuinness when the Deputy First Minister's mother was
dying?
Comments: 5
Chocs away! Watch out for those Krafty Yanks
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
I know we're supposed to be the 51st state and everything ... but Cadbury's.
Comments: 2
Why Jim is really just a chip off the old unionism bloc
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
It didn’t particularly interest anybody, apart from those standing, but the
council by-election in Craigavon presented an intriguing case study of the
current state of unionism.
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So, what’s the point of burying pigs alive in a snow drift?
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Just when it looks as though animal right extremists look on the verge of
being pushed out of favour, along come the mad scientists.
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How Iris affair has left us all staring again into abyss
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The biggest casualty of the extraordinary events of the last week has
undoubtedly been democracy in Northern Ireland.
Comments: 21
Swine flu caused madness
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Well it seems we've all been suckered by the swine flu hysteria. Surprise,
surprise!
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Gail Walker: Iris is now paying the price for her lust...and greed
Friday, 8 January 2010
For the headline writers and the local satirists it is a story beyond their
wildest dreams and imaginings.
Comments: 53
It may have been painful, but Peter Robinson did the right thing
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Of all the ways which a man like Peter Robinson, with his decades of experience in the most fraught political environment, found open to him as options faced with catastrophe in his private life, the option he ended up choosing would easily have been the least appealing.
Let’s make a New Year resolution ... to celebrate 2011
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
It's not often that I congratulate Belfast City Council. Even rarer when I
have to congratulate them for doing — to quote the old song — absolutely
nothin'.
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BB, you’ve been evicted, please leave the building
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
So now we know who is in the Celebrity Big Brother House. Isn’t that yer boy
who went out with what do you call her?
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Fanatical nutcases pose the real danger to our planet
Friday, 1 January 2010
Everyone laughed when Silvio Berlusconi got a souvenir model of Milan
cathedral smashed into his face a few weeks ago.
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Why I’m glad to see end of noughties
Friday, 1 January 2010
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939
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Gail Walker: So, what is it that makes Christmas magical for you?
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
For many of you the worst is already over: presents bought, the painful memory
of your antics at the office party fading into a semi-humourous anecdote,
the fantastic plastic retired for a well-earned rest.
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Who would be the Johnny Hallyday of Northern Ireland?
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
France is a deeply worried nation. Its beloved Johnny Hallyday is in a
medically-induced coma following an operation on his back.
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Tiger Woods did wrong, but he hasn’t killed anyone
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
10? 12? 15? A figure matching the exact population of Donaghadee? Who knows
what Tiger Woods' tally will be by the time you read this but, as they say
in Nuu Yoirk comedies, enough already!
Comments: 6
Why we shouldn’t scream ‘Italian job’ over Amanda Knox
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
It's strange, isn't it? One minute we have Foxy Knoxy, the promiscuous
hard-faced American psychosexual harridan and the next, after she gets 26
years, we have the innocent victim railroaded by a corrupt legal system.
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It’s time to nail the Z-list I’m a Celebrity Rat Pack
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
OK, I know it's only a rat but ... it was a rat minding it's own business way
out in the Australian jungle when chef Gino D'Acampo (no, me neither) and
Stuart Manning (no, me neither) grabbed it, killed it, skinned it and popped
it into the pan for a quick rat risotto.
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Northern Ireland: where the streets have no shame ...
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Tis the season ... to be thuggish. And for decent people to be afraid.
Belfast, revelling in its reputation, like Glasgow, of being a ‘hard' city,
is not, if we’re honest, the most convivial of places.
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Kiss ‘n’ tell is the final betrayal of tragic Stephen
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
I suppose in a weird way it's a sign of progress but this weekend saw a
tabloid plastered with Georgi Dochev's gay kiss ‘n’ tell about the final
hours of Stephen Gately.
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