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Apologies for the delay in blogging, caused by a mixture of bugs. First an electronic one which robbed me of broadband at home, then a biological one, which robbed me of the will to analyse the north south meeting in Newcastle, Nick Clegg's response to the St. Andrews Agreement capital budget argument or the Peter Robinson scheme for eight departments.

For the record - it was wierd passing a candlelit vigil on the way into the north south meeting on Thursday night, the Deputy PM was obviously being polite when he agreed to consider the capital spending case, but didn't give anything away, and whilst almost everyone agrees the Stormont bureaucracy should be cut, the Stormont parties will look long and hard at what any reductions might mean for them before agreeing any reductions.

I am now watching Stormont proceedings, where the Ulster Unionist George Savage just got his terminology in a twist, confusing "paramilitary" and "paralympic" sports. Later this afternoon we have two interesting private members' bills - Dawn Purvis's attempt to ban MLAs' double jobbing as councillors and David McNarry's proposal to ensure all departments "have due regard to the impact that the exercise of their functions has on members of the armed forces and their families and veterans and their families."

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