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Stray Bullets — 93 episodes

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1

Whited Sepulchres: Jeffrey Donaldson, Sexual Offending and Moral Disguise

2

Belfast Race Riots June 2026

3

Asset Handling in Northern Ireland: A Return Examination Part II

4

Asset Handling in Northern Ireland: A Return Examination Part I

5

Stormont's Performative Politicians and the Maintenance of Societal Division

6

Forty years ago I joined the RUC

7

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

8

Brief Reflections On The Past Few Episodes

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

The Fallacy of 'Paramilitary' Transition in Northern Ireland

14

The Absence of Political Courage in Northern Ireland

15

Catholic Recruits and the Police Service of Northern Ireland

16

The Corporals Killings, Poetry, and Peace Walls

17

Subtle Alchemies IV: Miasma, the Stain of Spilled Blood

18

Political Miasma and 'Proxy' Sectarianism in Northern Ireland

19

Subtle Alchemies III: The Trenches Dug Within Our Hearts

20

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

21

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

22

Flaying the Flag and Destroying Intelligence: An Aside

23

Subtle Alchemies I: The Ideal Victim

24

The Management of Sex Offenders, plus Police Surveillance

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

No Songs for the Children

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

Addendum for All the Elements of a Police State John Montague

39

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

40

Northern Ireland: A Police State?

41

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

42

Kneecap: The Politics of Protest

43

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

44

New Episode Dropping Very Soon

45

Policing in Northern Ireland: Another Troubles' Hangover?

46

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

47

The Post-Policing Gaze: Problems of Ego and Reputation

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

Brief response re queries about my novel

53

Brief re some upcoming episodes for 2025

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Intelligence Collisions and Contamination

60

Quick Changeover

61

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Agent Handling Part II

62

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Agent Handling Part I

63

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

64

Blue Lights and Love Squads

65

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

66

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

67

Our Troubled Past: The Glory and the Grief

68

Squaring The Circle

69

Rattlebag II: Addendum - The Forgotten Op

70

Rattlebag: An Interlude

71

A Hard and Bitter Circle

72

An Unintended Interlude

73

I Bear No Grudge

74

Doorstep Shootings Part II: Tunnel Vision

75

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

76

Briefing Book

77

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

78

Unfinished Revolutions? Dissident Irish Republicanism and its Ideology of Violence

79

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

80

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

81

An undraped fire, flashes its fire within

82

From Banality to Atrocity?

83

In Bloody Protest For A Glorious Thing Part II

84

In Bloody Protest For A Glorious Thing Part I

85

Imagined Communities: The RUC and Loyalism

86

A Rope of Smoke, A Noose of Fire

87

The Gulf In The Eye Of The Other

88

The Murder Corridor

89

No Small Mercy

90

Nothing Personal

91

The Dialogue of Shadows

92

Belfast: A Tale of Two Cities. Part One

93

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