Hirsute Unionists
Last weekend my colleague Gareth Gordon was covering the Progressive Unionist Party conference when he came across an activist he had come across the year before. Gareth hardly recognised the man. Previously clean shaven, he now sported a beard and long hair reminiscent of Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings.
Questioned about his transformation, the unionist had the most logical explanation - he had got a job as an extra on the filming of "Game of Thrones" at the Paint Hall in Belfast's Titanic Quarter.
I don't know whether the Conservative Peer and former UUP leader Lord Trimble is double jobbing on "Game of Thrones". But, he is also sporting a beard, which gives him "a look of George V crossed with Tom Hanks in Castaway".
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