This week, the DUP are playing the same Project Fear card they played last May, and in every Election they have ever fought. Since they entered…
Browsing: Mike Nesbitt
Some faded campaign posters, re-cycled from the Fresh Start election of May 2016 appeared within days of the announcement of the election. Election literature has been…
Mike Nesbitt’s vision of “partnership not domination” on eamonnmallie.com has been welcomed by a swathe of the political spectrum. Here is “strong” Unionism which exhibits a…
As local politics stumbles incoherently towards Northern Ireland’s centenary, it seems an appropriate time to define unionism for the second century. A real fresh start, if…
The arrival of the visiting party leader was much anticipated. The talks leading up to it had not been without their problems. Political parties possess a…
Stormont is not Westminster. In the latter politicians do not choose Opposition. They are placed there. It is a mark of limited success within the narrow…
In a recent article Brian Spencer makes a number of observations about this “loutish Calvinist”. I am grateful that Eamonn has allowed this “rural unionist oaf”…
Maybe Mike Nesbitt is playing a smart game of chess. Or maybe he can’t even visualise toppling dominoes. He’s the enigmatic (flip-flopping?) ‘moderate’ who takes a…
When Tom Elliott called me earlier this year and asked me would I speak at the Annual General Meeting of the Fermanagh Ulster Unionist Association, I…
This was a curious General Election campaign in Northern Ireland. Curious in the sense that those charged with respective leadership in their parties when called upon,…
You had the main opposition leaders debate earlier in the night, three women against two men. Then the Northern Ireland debate on Newsnight, 5 middle aged…
After the local and European elections, is Northern Ireland any better off? Nearly 50% of the electorate who opted out of the process probably…
Introducing the Defamation Act 2013 On January 1 2014 the Defamation Act 2013 came into effect in England and Wales. The new law strengthens…
Why is Richard Haass here? There is a simple answer to that question. He and Meghan O’Sullivan are here because the political parties and the…
There’s one thing Sinn Fein can’t get enough of and it’s Unionist disarray. They tried the whole bomb-made uncertainty thing and that didn’t work,…