Undermining Stormont
The prospect of swingeing cuts may be gnawing away at the stability of the Stormont Executive. But up at Stormont castle this lunchtime, waiting to talk to the First and Deputy First about their combined call with Scotland and Wales for the spending review to be slowed down, I stumbled over a more immediate attack on the foundations of power sharing. the castle lawn is currently potmarked with sandy patches. They aren't mini golf bunkers erected in honour of our golfers' role in the Ryder cup, but evidence of the nocturnal excavations of a cete of badgers, who inhabit a sett in the trees nearby.
Given their protected status, the Stormont gardeners are patching up and putting up with the digging - but a couple of ministers appeared keen to get their shotguns out to deal with the intruders.
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