July, 2009

Strewth! What next – the Pope gets caught coming out of a Roman night-club looking tired and emotional? Jeffrey Donaldson says those bills for hundreds of pounds in movies viewed – alone, presumably – in his London hotel room were for ‘blockbuster movies’. Like? Oooh, like the Star Wars trilogy and, what was it – […]

I’ve just come from watching Andy Roddick, the Yank, beat Andy Murray, the, um, Brit. Actually Murray is a Scot and he even had the chutzpah to tell a BBC interviewer that he’d be hoping England got beaten in some football tournament at the time. Despite that, the British have drowned his Scottishness in their […]

I’ve just come from watching Andy Roddick, the Yank, beat Andy Murray, the, um, Brit. Actually Murray is a Scot and he even had the chutzpah to tell a BBC interviewer that he’d be hoping England got beaten in some football tournament at the time. Despite that, the British have drowned his Scottishness in their […]

With our toes in the shallow end of July, maybe it’s time to get a few things straight about the Orange Order and its marching men. 1. The Orange Order uses its flimsy links with religion as a veil for its embarrassing core parts, which are anti-nationalist and anti-Catholic. The organisation’s origins at the end […]

With our toes in the shallow end of July, maybe it’s time to get a few things straight about the Orange Order and its marching men. 1. The Orange Order uses its flimsy links with religion as a veil for its embarrassing core parts, which are anti-nationalist and anti-Catholic. The organisation’s origins at the end […]