Media framing has played a massive role in creating & shaping the Orange/Bryson Drumcree campaign.
That needs to be front & centre in any public conversation exploring how & why we got to this point.
Britain’s 1950 view of Northern Ireland declassified: Militarily strategic, religiously harmonious & bound to GB by racial ties. Detailed internal Foreign Office document fused self-reflective honesty on the past with wishful thinking about the present.
https://t.co/V8qdvYrOuU
@NewtonEmerson No this will not help. People have been attacked from the days of the home rule it is not new . There are those who do not wish to change.
@chrisadonnelly Simple question about signs. How much money did Translink spend on taking all the bus stop signs down and putting Translink signs with no numbers in their place.
East Belfast—where I’ve lived for a quarter of a century—has changed and will keep on changing. Elements of unionism/loyalism need to step back from the no-nay-never approach and, instead, learn to deploy change to their own long term benefit.