I apologise to those readers who hate Twitter, but awful though it can be, it’s a fact of life and like all political journalists I have to read it. Published: 15 February 2022 Last week’s highlights for me were not the usual entertainment of Shinnerbots spewing...
Last week I was on Talkback disagreeing with the journalist Susan McKay about her charge that Kate Hoey was sectarian — one piece of evidence being that Hoey had attended “a barbecue for the extremist TUV party” (as she wrote in an Irish Times article on January 8)....
“Well when the votes were counted one parochial, backward looking, regressive who is 50 something and from Lagan Valley beat another one,” tweeted Alliance councillor Michael Long after the DUP leadership election. Published: 25 March 2021 “What is clear is that...