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Stray Bullets — 95 episodes

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1

Ignobly Disbanded: Final Stray Bullets Episode

2

RTB, BUT DON'T STAND-DOWN

3

Whited Sepulchres: Jeffrey Donaldson, Sexual Offending and Moral Disguise

4

Belfast Race Riots June 2026

5

Asset Handling in Northern Ireland: A Return Examination Part II

6

Asset Handling in Northern Ireland: A Return Examination Part I

7

Stormont's Performative Politicians and the Maintenance of Societal Division

8

Forty years ago I joined the RUC

9

'To Perfect Murder': The RUC, Collusion and Asset Handling. Coming Soon...

10

Brief Reflections On The Past Few Episodes

11

'The Speech Being Irish, The Heart Must Needs Be Irish'

12

Swept Under The Rug: Toxic Masculinity in the Royal Ulster Constabulary

13

[Trailer] Toxic Masculinity in the Royal Ulster Constabulary and The Irish Language in the age of British Colonialism

14

Addendum for: The Fallacy of 'Paramilitary' Transition in Northern Ireland

15

The Fallacy of 'Paramilitary' Transition in Northern Ireland

16

The Absence of Political Courage in Northern Ireland

17

Catholic Recruits and the Police Service of Northern Ireland

18

The Corporals Killings, Poetry, and Peace Walls

19

Subtle Alchemies IV: Miasma, the Stain of Spilled Blood

20

Political Miasma and 'Proxy' Sectarianism in Northern Ireland

21

Subtle Alchemies III: The Trenches Dug Within Our Hearts

22

(Audio Trailer for) Subtle Alchemies III: Anger at Heel - Soldier F and Collateral Grief

23

Subtle Alchemies II: Victims, Aren't We All?

24

Flaying the Flag and Destroying Intelligence: An Aside

25

Subtle Alchemies I: The Ideal Victim

26

The Management of Sex Offenders, plus Police Surveillance

27

Symbolic Dominance: Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI Part VI

28

The Starless Midnight: A Further Look at Loyalism and the Far-Right

29

'Say Nothing': Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI Part V

30

'Hoover-Gate' and the Strategy of Heading Off Disciplinary Action

31

Racism in East Belfast: Outsiders and the Lingering Fear of Cultural Loss

32

Minor Addendum for: Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI Part IV

33

Isolation: Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI Part IV

34

Brief Preamble to Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI Part III

35

No Songs for the Children

36

'A Black Man is better than a Fenian': Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI Part II

37

They Had Their Loyalties: Catholic Police Officers in the RIC, RUC and PSNI

38

'Who Are The Disloyal?' Northern Ireland and the Experience of Catholic Police Officers [TRAILER]

39

Northern Ireland, the Far-right and the Failure of Political Unionism

40

Addendum for All the Elements of a Police State John Montague

41

'All the elements of a police state': John Montague's Ulster

42

Northern Ireland: A Police State?

43

State-Terrorism and PIRA's 'No Alternative' to violence: Part IV: 'To Die A Soldier's Death ... '

44

Kneecap: The Politics of Protest

45

State-Terrorism and PIRA's 'No Alternative' to violence: Part II: Utopia through Atrocity?

46

New Episode Dropping Very Soon

47

Policing in Northern Ireland: Another Troubles' Hangover?

48

State-Terrorism and PIRA's 'No Alternative' to violence: Part II: 'The Thing Was Always Planned.'

49

The Post-Policing Gaze: Problems of Ego and Reputation

50

State-Terrorism and PIRA's 'No Alternative' to violence: Part I: From NICRA to OCGs

51

Trailer for State-Terrorism + Did PIRA Really Have No Alternative To Violence?

52

Stakeknife and the Ripple of Terror. Addendum: 'Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!'

53

Stakeknife and the Ripple of Terror. Part III: Court Martials and a pause for now.

54

Brief response re queries about my novel

55

Brief re some upcoming episodes for 2025

56

Stakeknife and the Ripple of Terror. Part II: An Unreliable Narrator

57

Stakeknife and the Ripple of Terror. Part I: Just War Unjust Peace

58

'A sledgehammer used to miss a fly': Counterinsurgency and State Violence Part II

59

'Better to have one man whom you can hang': Counterinsurgency and State Violence Part I

60

All The Dead Men's Dreams: Sinn Féin, Commemoration and the Complex Reality of Ireland

61

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Intelligence Collisions and Contamination

62

Quick Changeover

63

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Agent Handling Part II

64

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Agent Handling Part I

65

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Impromptu Episode: Intelligence Streams

66

Blue Lights and Love Squads

67

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion. Part I: Personal Observations

68

Armagh GAA Bags All-Ireland Win As PSNI On Hot Coals Overs Flags

69

Our Troubled Past: The Glory and the Grief

70

Squaring The Circle

71

Rattlebag II: Addendum - The Forgotten Op

72

Rattlebag: An Interlude

73

A Hard and Bitter Circle

74

An Unintended Interlude

75

I Bear No Grudge

76

Doorstep Shootings Part II: Tunnel Vision

77

Doorstep Shootings in Northern Ireland. Part I: Just a Uniform

78

Briefing Book

79

Use of Force: Behind the Baton Gun with an RUC Officer

80

Unfinished Revolutions? Dissident Irish Republicanism and its Ideology of Violence

81

Blue Lights: PSNI Police Procedural TV Drama. How realistic is it? Part II

82

Blue Lights: PSNI Police Procedural TV Drama. How realistic is it? Part I

83

An undraped fire, flashes its fire within

84

From Banality to Atrocity?

85

In Bloody Protest For A Glorious Thing Part II

86

In Bloody Protest For A Glorious Thing Part I

87

Imagined Communities: The RUC and Loyalism

88

A Rope of Smoke, A Noose of Fire

89

The Gulf In The Eye Of The Other

90

The Murder Corridor

91

No Small Mercy

92

Nothing Personal

93

The Dialogue of Shadows

94

Belfast: A Tale of Two Cities. Part One

95

Episode One: Why a Northern Ireland Troubles novel, and why Mithras?