Salome , Salome….!!Salome isn’t going to keep her clothes on and the public in Norneverland have had to be warned. Of course this has started all the dogs barking, the cats howling and has brought out all the crazies again .Next thing you know they’ll be out with their placards prancing about outside the hall […]
February, 2015
Gordon Brown and Sean Barrett: getting nervous
There are two worried men on these islands this morning. Over in Britain, Gordon Brown is fretting about a big matter: the future of the United Kingdom. You’ll remember it was Brown (of all people) who grabbed the Better Together campaign by the scruff of the neck in the final days before the referendum and […]
BACK TO THE PEARLY GATES by Harry McAvinchey
I didn’t even want to get into this at all. It’s all been talked in and out of heaven and hell already .They’re back on the radio talking and tussling about god again. William Crawley is leavening the row on “Talkback” with some well-chosen music that would never usually get an airing in […]
Crying and laughing over Willie Frazer
Some people say that when they see Willie Frazer’s Love Ulster campaign and its plans, they don’t know whether to laugh or cry. That’s unfair, I think. There’s no need to present Willie’s plans in that light. Considering them carefully, you could both laugh and cry. In fact it’d be hard not to. The crying […]
The T-Word by Soinbhe Lally
I note that Al Jazeera English and the BBC have been troubling lovers of free speech by restricting the use of the word “Terrorist” in some of their news reporting. “Terrorist” is a word with a relatively recent etymology. It dates from 1794 and originated in that unpleasant phase of French history called “La Terreur,” […]
PROGRESS OF A SORT by Harry McAvinchey
It’s progress of a sort isn’t it? The Secretary of State for Norneverland is allowed to utter the immortal word “Ireland”, now without the drab and raddled skies above him or her opening up and a bolt of crackling electricity immediately vaporising and vanquishing him or her in a murmur. It was not ever […]
Ruth Dudley Edwards gets bare-knuckled
Brace yourselves. Just as politicians with an eye on Westminster have started getting in some serious shadow-boxing, so too those with an eye to boosting their favoured party via the media have pulled out the singlet and wriggled into the shorts. (No, no boxing gloves involved, Virginia. This is bare-knuckle stuff we’re talking here.) And […]