The 2009 Awards take place in Belfast on the 24th November. Details to follow shortly. In the meantime, here’s an interview I gave to Blogtalk NI introducing the awards.
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- “the relentlessly negative portrayal of our economy by some economists & media commentators”At last night’s NI Assembly Business Trust event, Peter Robinson took aim at Occupy Belfast protesters before moving on to the media: At times like this, when society is struggling to break the grip of the worst recession for two generations, there is far more to be gained by contributing intelligent opinion to informed thinking [...]
- Is the Rangers crisis undermining the false economy of Scottish football?There’s always been something slightly delusional about football. Listen to a football fan talking, and it’s ‘we’ did this and ‘we’ did that. The truth is that the commercial relationship between fans and their clubs has long since been notional. These are big joint stock companies whose relationship with their fans is pur […]
- #CATJRF: Good exchange of information & important development in the Asset Transfer debate…Thursday’s seminar on community asset transfer at Farset International was well attended by anyone with an interest in the subject and rightly so; there were fascinating insights from the speakers from Locality, good examples of asset transfer in practice from the Housing Executive and a presentation by Dr Brendan Murtagh of the findings of the Queen […]
- “Washington Post Tests Personalized News Program”So reports TechCrunch. I’m all for easing access to information – but this feels somewhat worrying. Yes, it’s great to be able to ‘deep-dive’ on topics of choice but if this leads people to simply reading less, it’s not all for the good. And what’s the impact on various ‘unsexy’ news departments within th […]
- Faster-than-light neutrinos? Not so fast…The Telegraph’s Tom Chivers might be a little premature with his “I told you so“, but the reality is that theoretical physicist Jim “I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV” Al-Khalili can probably put the ketchup down. As the historically “somewhat excited” BBC report, “Faster-than-light neutrinos could be down to bad wirin […]
- #CATJRF: Is there is a ‘new politics’ underlying the transfer of capital assets to communities?I’ll be very interested in FitzJamesHorse’s comments on this morning’s seminar on Community Asset Transfer. Lisa’s more authoritative account(s) will follow. Here’s some quick thoughts of my own. One, this ‘community’ is rather different to the one that many of us associate with the major imperatives of conflict reso […]
- DevoMax may be more disruptive to English regions than Independence…Great piece by Mark Hennessy who digs into a part of England where they probably have a more nuanced understanding of the Scots instinct for greater autonomy than any other. …the northeast of England worries about the powers that the Scots already have, let alone the possibility that they might get powers over corporation tax [...]
