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Stray Bullets — 89 episodes

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Stormont's Performative Politicians and the Maintenance of Societal Division

2

Forty years ago I joined the RUC

3

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

4

Brief Reflections On The Past Few Episodes

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

The Fallacy of 'Paramilitary' Transition in Northern Ireland

10

The Absence of Political Courage in Northern Ireland

11

Catholic Recruits and the Police Service of Northern Ireland

12

The Corporals Killings, Poetry, and Peace Walls

13

Subtle Alchemies IV: Miasma, the Stain of Spilled Blood

14

Political Miasma and 'Proxy' Sectarianism in Northern Ireland

15

Subtle Alchemies III: The Trenches Dug Within Our Hearts

16

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

17

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

18

Flaying the Flag and Destroying Intelligence: An Aside

19

Subtle Alchemies I: The Ideal Victim

20

The Management of Sex Offenders, plus Police Surveillance

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

No Songs for the Children

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

Addendum for All the Elements of a Police State John Montague

35

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

36

Northern Ireland: A Police State?

37

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

38

Kneecap: The Politics of Protest

39

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

40

New Episode Dropping Very Soon

41

Policing in Northern Ireland: Another Troubles' Hangover?

42

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

43

The Post-Policing Gaze: Problems of Ego and Reputation

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

Brief response re queries about my novel

49

Brief re some upcoming episodes for 2025

50

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

51

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

52

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

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

54

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

55

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Intelligence Collisions and Contamination

56

Quick Changeover

57

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Agent Handling Part II

58

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and Collusion: Agent Handling Part I

59

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

60

Blue Lights and Love Squads

61

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

62

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

63

Our Troubled Past: The Glory and the Grief

64

Squaring The Circle

65

Rattlebag II: Addendum - The Forgotten Op

66

Rattlebag: An Interlude

67

A Hard and Bitter Circle

68

An Unintended Interlude

69

I Bear No Grudge

70

Doorstep Shootings Part II: Tunnel Vision

71

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

72

Briefing Book

73

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

74

Unfinished Revolutions? Dissident Irish Republicanism and its Ideology of Violence

75

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

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

77

An undraped fire, flashes its fire within

78

From Banality to Atrocity?

79

In Bloody Protest For A Glorious Thing Part II

80

In Bloody Protest For A Glorious Thing Part I

81

Imagined Communities: The RUC and Loyalism

82

A Rope of Smoke, A Noose of Fire

83

The Gulf In The Eye Of The Other

84

The Murder Corridor

85

No Small Mercy

86

Nothing Personal

87

The Dialogue of Shadows

88

Belfast: A Tale of Two Cities. Part One

89

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