Tom Lehrer, they say, gave up on satire the day they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, on the grounds that nothing he Lehrer could compose would rival the absurdity of reality. He should have been at Tynecastle stadium in Edinburgh on 11 May this year. That’s when a Hearts supporter called Wilson, followed […]
August, 2011
The #Celtic boss story: you couldn’t make it up
Tom Lehrer, they say, gave up on satire the day they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, on the grounds that nothing he Lehrer could compose would rival the absurdity of reality. He should have been at Tynecastle stadium in Edinburgh on 11 May this year. That’s when a Hearts supporter called Wilson, followed […]
The recession – treading still-deep water vs bashing your shins
There are two apparently contradictory reports in the Irish Times this morning. One says that house prices in the South excluding Dublin have fallen 40% since 2007. In Dublin the prices have dropped 49%. Clearly, an awful lot of people are an awful lot poorer. The second report notes that the number of pupils being […]
The recession – treading still-deep water vs bashing your shins
/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} There are two apparently contradictory reports in the Irish Times this morning. One says that house prices in the South excluding Dublin have fallen 40% […]
Donegal Gaelic football team – they gave us a laugh or two
The Donegal Gaelic football team shouldn’t feel too bad about losing to Dublin in Croke Park yesterday, and not just because they made it a very close thing until the final period of the match. They should feel good because they provided a national service at Croker yesterday. They gave us all a laugh. No, […]
Donegal Gaelic football team – they gave us a laugh or two
The Donegal Gaelic football team shouldn’t feel too bad about losing to Dublin in Croke Park yesterday, and not just because they made it a very close thing until the final period of the match. They should feel good because they provided a national service at Croker yesterday. They gave us all a laugh. No, […]
The Van der Lendens and what sort of person is your great-granny?
The recent arrest of lay magistrate Delia Van der Lenden and her retired Dutch naval officer husband was what you might describe as an own goal by the PSNI. Mrs Van der Lenden said after their release that either the PSNI targeted them for “malicious reasons” or they had lousy intelligence. I’d say most people […]
The Van der Lendens and what sort of person is your great-granny?
The recent arrest of lay magistrate Delia Van der Lenden and her retired Dutch naval officer husband was what you might describe as an own goal by the PSNI. Mrs Van der Lenden said after their release that either the PSNI targeted them for “malicious reasons” or they had lousy intelligence. I’d say most people […]
Welsh Independence – doing the sums
Did you see that little news item about Wales around the beginning of August? It featured a report issued by researchers in Harvard which argued that if Wales had been independent since 1990, the people of that country would be nearly 40% better off today. “Opponents of independence and further devolution have often misused […]
Welsh Independence – doing the sums
Did you see that little news item about Wales around the beginning of August? It featured a report issued by researchers in Harvard which argued that if Wales had been independent since 1990, the people of that country would be nearly 40% better off today. “Opponents of independence and further devolution have often misused the […]