‘STINKING STATUS QUO’

Claire Hanna

Huge traffic congestion each evening in Belfast’s rush hour in the run up to Christmas seemed an appropriate metaphor for the north’s politics. Buses didn’t turn up, delivery drivers couldn’t deliver, taxis couldn’t pick up and people missed appointments. No one was going anywhere. The relevant Stormont minister, Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd, was powerless and… Read more »