DUP leadership

Arlene Foster the vision thing and Angela Merkel

Turgon on March 15, 2016, 11:18 pm | Readers 1203

Following Arlene Foster’s successful first conference as DUP leader and before the frenzy of the run up to the elections in the spring it is maybe time to take stock of the third DUP leader and her achievements thus far. Firstly even to have become DUP leader is a significant achievement and one which speaks of her political talent no matter what one’s views of her politics. Foster was a gradually rising star in the UUP under Molyneaux and Trimble’s …

Gregory Campbell and the law of unintended consequences

Concubhar on November 28, 2014, 8:08 am | Readers 2724

Not that he cares but Gregory Campbell MP’s recent remarks about the Irish language and his contemptuous dismissal of the campaign for an Irish Language Act has had some unintended consequences from those he may have imagined. It’s very easy to see why Gregory Campbell, drifting as he was to the margins of his party having been left out of the Executive by his leader in successive reshuffles, would want to make some grand effort to get back in the …