LL.B. LL.M.Director,Unionist Voice Policy Studies. @JWBConsultancy PR-Law-Advocacy. Author ‘Culture War’ & ‘NI Constitutional Law’. NI Director @Centre4TheUnion

North Down N.Ireland
Joined January 2011
🚨 🇬🇧 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑- 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬. 📕 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃 👇 Culture War explores the thirty year siege of unionism, and the fightback which has begun. Part 1 of the book over eight chapters analyses the constitutionally corrosive impact of the Belfast Agreement, the Irish Sea border and nationalism’s relentless targeting of unionist/loyalist culture from Drumcree (which is the focus of an entire chapter as a case study on parading) to the more recent attack on the flying of Union flags and bonfires. It further devotes a chapter to illuminating the political agenda behind nationalism’s divisive Irish Language campaign. There is a detailed chapter contribution by Ulster University academic Dr Cillian McGrattan (writing in a personal capacity) who, using legacy as a case study, presents a clinical evidence-based exposure of the ‘greening’ of academia and how a small cohort of nationalists have managed to completely control academic output and skew it to suit nationalism’s political agenda. The book also looks at the structural bias within much of the professional class- in particular within media and the legal profession-and how this has been influenced by a strategic nationalist insurgency to ‘green’ important opinion-forming institutions. Importantly, Part 2 of the book in three chapters provides the tools for fighting back, explaining the basic outline of Human Rights law and Judicial Review, and how this can be used to defend and advance unionist/loyalist rights. Culture War is also now available in a number of local shops, and can be purchased in both paperback and hardback directly via Amazon which is the easiest place to order: amzn.eu/d/02HSqtXG
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Jamie Bryson retweeted
It does now appear that the changing legal situation around Drumcree is in no small part a result of Bryson's masters dissertation on parading rights and the ECHR. Whatever you think of Bryson when was the last time a masters dissertation had that level of impact?
🎧 Today on Inside Politics: Jamie Bryson: Northern Irish unionists ‘must go on the offensive’ Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts. In association with AJ Products Via @IrishTimesAudio irishtimes.com/podcasts/insi…
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Wonder are SDLP regretting being footsoldiers in the PIRA/Dissident mob as yet?
💯 battle lines being drawn for an election based on whipping people up about identity to mask their combined inaction on health, education, infrastructure and every other public service device they have run down!
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Gregory Campbell told @williamcrawley that SF would resign Ministers and that would cause a “collapse”. This is just wrong. He needs to go and read section 18 (9), (10) and (11) of the 1998 Act. The DUP are repeating legally illiterate nonsense.
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The @duponline election strategy is literally producing campaign videos for Sinn Fein
The DUP’s entire election strategy is about removing Michelle O’Neill as First Minister. It’s about stopping the momentum for change in the North. The days of ‘no nationalist need apply’ are over. There is no going back.
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Why would they? Given the weakness of the DUP leadership, they know they can do what they want.
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Interviewed by police over Drumcree, yet still on the Policing Board scrutinising the very operation under investigation. How is that credible oversight? The UUP called for fundamental reform of the Board long before this debacle. The case is now impossible to ignore.
Sinn Féin MLAs Gerry Kelly and Deirdre Hargey have arrived at Musgrave Police Station in Belfast for interview over their attendance at protests on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown. Follow our live blog for the latest updates: tinyurl.com/268sd528
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Nobody tell Chris Donnelly about this episode of the View. He must have been marking homework that night as I’m surprised he wasn’t on……
Coming up tonight on @BBCTheView... 100 years on from the partition of the island, is Irish nationalism any closer to achieving its goal of a united Ireland? @MarkCarruthers7 will speak to Sinn Féin's @PearseDoherty, SDLP's @ClaireHanna & Fianna Fáil's @OCallaghanJim
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🚨 The arguments being made by those in the DUP arguing for sustaining the lawless Michelle O’Neill in office are without any foundation in law or reality. Here are the facts, debunking each one of the arguments being made 👇
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He must have forgot about Edgar Graham?
Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson were murdered during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. We must never forget them or the dangers faced by lawyers defending the rights of others. In Parliament yesterday, I challenged some MPs’ use of the term “IRA lawyers”, language the Law Society has condemned as grossly irresponsible. Those representing clients must be able to work without being vilified or put at risk. Words can have tragic consequences. MPs have a responsibility to understand that.
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The mobsters interviewed two by two…
Sinn Féin MLAs Gerry Kelly and Deirdre Hargey have arrived at Musgrave Police Station in Belfast for interview over their attendance at protests on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown. Follow our live blog for the latest updates: tinyurl.com/268sd528
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.@timcairns made an important point with which I agree. @GRobinsonDUP is a fundamentally decent person. He is a nice guy. He’s not malicious or nasty. He is not the problem. It’s others, and everyone knows who they are. They are those whose personal interest binds them to sustaining a lawless mobster in office at all costs.
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🔥 DUP lies about Irish Sea Border destroyed Unionist unity🔥#JimAllister #TUV
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Unionism can unite around at least one issue: There must be profound consequences for the lawless chief mobster who has defied the rule of law & led an anti-human rights campaign against 35 lawful peaceful Orangemen. Follow that to its logic conclusion, and it’s a fallacy to believe the endpoint of delivering such consequences is not ejecting her from office.
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GREATER SHANKILL ACT Today we remember the 9 innocent lives lost on 23rd October 1993 when the IRA set off a no warning bomb in Frizzell's fish shop. Our thoughts are also with the survivors and those who were first on the scene and witnessed the horrors of the aftermath.
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Jamie Bryson retweeted
"It turns out all you did was profound nothing and you've allowed Sinn Fein off the hook and they're laughing at you." @JimAllister tells @MarkCarruthers7
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Carla Lockhart has led unionism politically through Drumcree. Where she goes, the grassroots unionist/loyalist community will follow. She has shown integrity, consistency and clarity. The DUP would do well to listen to her.
EXCLUSIVE: DUP MP Carla Lockhart quits as a party officer in a move which could lead to her leaving the party. She's been on a collision course with Gavin Robinson over Drumcree as she wants him to collapse the Executive now. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Jon Burrows doesn’t understand the legal effect of resigning the DFM. He thinks it “collapses Stormont” and “leads to direct rule”. This is legally illiterate.
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The whole case for the DUP continuing to sustain the lawless mobster has collapsed on the View. Jim Allister is now literally telling Gavin Robinson off, with Gavin sitting with the head down (and rightly so given what they’ve done), live on TV. There is no unionist who can credibly defend the DUP’s weakness.
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