Education impasse rumbles on

Is there anyone left who hasn’t criticised the Minister for Education?
In yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph the Children’s Commissioner, Patricia Lewsley, noted her concern that the process undertaken by Ms Ruane has done nothing to take on board the views of young people with regard to the way ahead.
The Minister has now seemingly managed the impossible. All shades of [...]

New Tory Lord to Take on the UUP

According to Dan McGinn writing in the Belfast Telegraph, new Tory Lord, David Trimble, has no problem with Conservatives contesting elections against his former Party.  On the hustings with David Cameron in Scotland, Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, who defected to the Conservatives this week, made clear that he could “understand people in Scotland being fed up with [...]

Land of Hope and Tories…

 
David Shiels, writing in tonight’s Belfast Telegraph, suggests that it’s time for the UUP to join the Tories.  We’d be delighted to welcome them.  Here’s an extract…
But it is now, ironically, David Trimble who has shown a possible way forward for the UUP: they could join the Tories. The two parties, after all, are agreed on all [...]