Category: UK
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The Belfast Agreement: a 25-Year Celebration of inertia (updated)
When the Belfast Agreement was signed in 1998, I was 39 and after 30 years of conflict, I saw for the first time being able to commit myself to building a future here. I was born and worked here, the son of a father and mother who migrated here in 1957. Weeks later, in August…
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An Election Without Reflection And A Road To Nowhere
Electoral Paralysis; no cures, no green pill, no orange pill, but some symptomatic relief can be gained through the D’hondt process whose objective is to keep bipolar symptoms in check, allowing for an occasional lucid political intervention, unfortunately, clinical trials conducted over 22 years have proven fruitless. This mandatory coalition is a busted flush, no…
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Namaste, Rishi Coming or Going?
Firstly, As one vertically challenged brown guy to another, I would like to congratulate you on your elevation and anointment to the position of Prime Minister by the overwhelming endorsement of some 200 Tory MPs. This is an important moment in British political history and pride for British Asians and other minorities. I like you…
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“We ain’t missing you at all”
Churchill said that” “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” Northern Ireland though a democracy, is probably the worst governed place in the western world. Stormont has been suspended for months and quite frankly you would be hard-pressed to distinguish between the quality of the…
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The Gob 