A week’s break in a lovely house in the Spanish Alpujarras mountains made the general election feel wonderfully remote. The trouble is that I felt the same when I got home.

It’s hard to get excited about the poll here in norn Iron, even when there’s a prospect of the DUP losing one or two seats.

Westminster elections do seem removed from what passes as our political life, where voting just brings more shouty nonsense and posters destined for 11th night bonfires.

I haven’t seen all the party broadcasts yet, but so far they’ve been uninspiring. Colum Eastwood seems to be going for the wise prophet look, bearded and looking into the horizon from a mountain top, but the effect is more Norman No-Mates than Moses.

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Alliance’s effort was predictably bland, but top of the weirdness charts was the DUP offering, which has party leader Gavin Robinson going though his family album, pointing out his childhood photographs to his wife, who must surely have seen them once or twice........

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