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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

3rd October 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 2nd October 2025 The Panel: Hilary Benn (Labour) Alex Burghart (Conservative) Jonathan Buckley (DUP) John Finucane (Sinn Fein) Aoife Moore (Journalist) Venue: Belfast Hilary Benn (not his real name, Hilary James Wedgwood-Benn) has [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy-Three

23rd March 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, folks, and it’s not as nice as yesterday here in London. The last two days have been beautiful here in Westminster, warm and sunny, real windowsill weather. It’s still warm here this [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Forty-Nine

15th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone from my first diary of the autumn. Overnight the weather forecast seems to have changed. Yesterday, this morning was going to be nice and sunny, but I have woken up to [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty

24th April 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning people, I am delighted the weather is much improved this morning. It’s sunny and warmer, what I call window sill weather. Bozzie has been busy this weekend, taking a trip to Ukraine. [more…]

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The Bland Generation?

29th September 2020 Going Postal 0

I visited the Titanic museum in Belfast today. On the way I passed a young lad of about 15 years of age dressed as a skinhead. He looked the part. Ox blood 18 hole DMs, [more…]

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The Northern Ireland Housing Trust & Rathcoole estate (1945-1971)

6th July 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Between the wars, a big public housing build in other parts of the United Kingdom was not replicated in Northern Ireland. Nor had there been grants for slum clearance. What public housing there was, had [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 4 – Edge, First Contact

19th April 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 4 Lisanelly Barracks in Omagh, County Tyrone was a scattering of old War Department buildings and more modern, but just as dilapidated buildings from the 1960s and 70s. Surrounded by a double [more…]

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Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

22nd March 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 21st March 2019 Panel: Tobias Ellwood (Tory. Remainer) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour. Remainer) Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP. ) John O’Dowd (Sinn Fein.) Polly MacKenzie (Demos.) Venue: Belfast Of this motley crew only Ellwood has a [more…]

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Going Postal with Question Time

21st March 2019 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Belfast. On the panel: Conservative defence minister and former captain in the Royal Green Jackets Tobias Ellwood MP, who became [more…]

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