politics
The ups and downs of conference exhibitors and their giveaways
Exhibiting at political party conferences is an occupational hazard for many charities, non-governmental organisations and even unions. Like a miniat…
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Can you see your tax dollars at work? Boosting accountability, efficiency and transparency the Louisville KY way
How accountable and how transparent should public bodies be? Whether council departments within local government, Executive departments or their arms…
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Bob McCartney cloned … and Brian Wilson starts an online video campaign!
While election fever may be growing, AiB still isn’t planning to be dominated by psephology . But it’s hard to avoid just now. Let’s face it, how man…
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Alliance conference 2011
For AiB readers who have an interest in Alliance but don’t follow local political machinations over on Slugger O’Toole , you may want to check out th…
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UN Security Council - Ding Ding Round 42
While we await the NI political machinations to come to their next conclusion in November, let’s cast our eyes over to the United Nations. In a bid t…
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Election Observers - time to sign up
Over on Slugger, Mark has been musing on the subject of how a legitimate political state is defined (Congress of Vienna, the Montevideo convention, …
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Some answers from Steven Agnew, the newly elected leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland
You’ll probably recognise Steven Agnew from posters tied to lampposts for the 2009 European election where he returned the Green Party’s highest ever…
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Have the political lunatics escaped from the asylum? Make Politicians History? Catch a Grip.
I’m fairly disgusted by the Make Politicians History campaign that posted an envelope containing a postcard through my letterbox this morning in Bel…
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NI21 call for flags to be respected, ministers to pledge a flag commitment; councils to regulate; but flags aren't the only issue?
Tonight, NI21 have launched an intervention into the debate around flags. There’s a statement from Basil McCrea , a position paper and even a video …
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Will NI votes end up counted ahead of English ones at the next General Election?
Just at the point when Northern Ireland’s Electoral Office has agreed to switch to counting the next General Election overnight ( announced in June…
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(Unexpected) Silence and the perception of what is being said
In Northern Ireland, it's not just what you say, it's also what you don't say ... what others perceive you to be reluctant to say. Today…
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Review: Michelle & Arlene - two game politicians flip flop after staying in close contact over the summer
What would it take for a politician to change their mind? For Iain Duncan Smith, his so-called ‘ Easterhouse Epiphany ’ around welfare and social mob…
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Wayback in May, AiB was talking about another election
I put alaninbelfast.blogspot.com into the Wayback Machine . Surprisingly, it had an archive of the site from May 4 2006 . And the main topic being d…
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Sammy Wilson's a fake twit!
The DUP say it's a fake account, so the potential enjoyment and humour that can be extracted from Sammy Wilson's musings on Twitter may be s…
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Contemporary Christianity relaunch For God And His Glory Alone + David Porter delivering Catherwood Lecture (Thu 10 Oct)
They’re all fighting over religion. Sure Christians are part of the problem. Twenty five years ago a group of Northern Ireland evangelicals decided t…
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Those Who Show Up ... Politics is far too important to be left to politicians
This month’s Presbyterian Herald magazine has an article in it written by a politically interested blogger! [If you’re not one of the 13,000 subscri…
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Digital Economy Bill – third reading – and guess who turned up to say No one last time?
There was a flurry of activity around my post last night about the second reading of the Digital Economy Bill and I had an unexpectedly robust excha…
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Alliance conference 2011
For AiB readers who have an interest in Alliance but don’t follow local political machinations over on Slugger O’Toole , you may want to check out th…
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politics
(Unexpected) Silence and the perception of what is being said
In Northern Ireland, it's not just what you say, it's also what you don't say ... what others perceive you to be reluctant to say. Today…
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Conservatives & Unionists - a new farce - but for how much longer?
Looks like Slugger O’Toole got the scoop on this morning’s falling out between a senior NI Conservative and the UUP. When David Cameron appeared i…
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