Picture by gumult Man A : Good heavens! Is it you? Bill McSwiggan? Man B: My God – Bates Dwibbley! I haven’t seen you in …what – ten years! Bates: It must be that at least. How are things? What are you doing with yourself now, Bill? Bill: Well I was unemployed for a […]
May, 2015
IT’S ALL IN THE STARS by Harry McAvinchey
It might be a form of depression…who knows . It’s a harrowing time for anyone of a progressive nature .First the Conservatives won the election which basically means that a majority of people voting in the UK are very conservative by nature and enjoy being ruled by a government that has been schooled in […]
That handshake vs locking yourself in the past and swallowing the key
Picture by odcat1 I was on the Nolan Show this morning, with Jim Allister and Ruth Dudley Edwards. The topic, of course, was the upcoming handshake of Gerry Adams with Prince Charles in Galway, as the Windsor One heads for Mullaghmore and the site of his great-uncle’s killing. Jim, predictably, found a lot to […]
Periscope video on National Service
What’s a euphemism? Easy: the Defence forces
Good old Prince Harry: his father (I think) doesn’t like modern architecture, he likes retro buildings; Harry doesn’t like to see young men lolling about: “I dread to think where I’d be without the Army. Bring back National Service”. Here, Harry, ask us another. We all know where you’d be: lolling about in unimaginable luxury and […]
The Ballad of Jeffrey and Daniel from Harry McAvinchey
Separated at birth… (Here’s Harry’s written bit, unfortunately overlooked first time. Enjoy…) Ha ha …Now admit it …. You thought that Jeffrey Donaldson the Norneverland Democratic Unionist politician and Daniel O’ Donnell the popular Country and Western crooner , had both been built in the same clone factory that time had long-since forgotten […]
Five reasons for throwing the radio at the wall
Picture by annakovilina I’m listening to RTÉ radio as I write this and I have to hold myself back from picking up my portable radio and aiming it at the opposite wall. Why? 1. They say that U2 has recorded a track on their new album called ‘Raised By Wolves’. They’ve played a bit of it […]
Periscope thoughts on Enda and David…
Belfast Metropolitan College picks up its axe
Picture by kmakinen It’s funny the way things dovetail. Yesterday afternoon I put up a link to a song by Billy Bragg, ‘There Is Power in a Union’. It seemed to me a timely thing to do, as Cameron and Osborne flex their muscles and prepare to plunge us all into a new Thatcherite era. Later […]
He’ll have to go?
If you’re going to change a leader, there could hardly be a better time than this. If you did well in the Westminster election, you can say you’re going to build on that success while the party is energised. That’s what the Scot Nats did after the referendum and look at them. If you […]