October, 2016

Arlene and That Speech

“Pure bitterness!” a friend commented after watching First Minister Arlene Foster’s DUP conference speech. You know, the one where she accused southern politicians of ‘poaching’ firms and companies from the north, in the wake of Brexit.  The only ones with a hard border, she said, were southern politicians who carried a hard border in their […]

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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: A MOSTLY BENIGN RULE? by John Patton

A newsletter in church today carried a piece by a recently deceased priest on a French  Trappist monk, Charles de Foucauld, who is a candidate for beatification and the  late author was one of those involved in the presentation of his cause to the Vatican. De Foucauld, an aristocrat, was a commissioned officer and saw […]

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HANG, DOG AND GNAW BONE by Perkin Warbeck

    There is a recent phenomenon called the ‘Evil Clown ’ which has caused a whole lot of upset and even driven that Super-Mac of Malevolence, Ronald McDonald into taking a hasty Sabbatical. Unfortunately, this is a phenomenon which is not at all recent in the Free Southern Stateen. It concerns a clown of […]

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Hillary Clinton and Gerry Adams: separated at birth?

Comparisons between Hillary Clinton and Gerry Adams aren’t at first glance, terribly easy to spot. But thanks to the FBI’s latest statement on Hillary’s emails, the similarities become clearer. Whatever your opinion of Hillary as a person and/or as a politician, it is undeniable that the right in America have made every conceivable charge against her […]

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‘ The Choice – to be 2% or 25%’ by Joe McVeigh

  I do not often buy the NewsLetter but I must confess that I did on Saturday to find out what Arlene Foster, the First Minister, was saying about Brexit. The front page headline drew my attention; “No Passport Controls After Brexit; Foster Vows”. Then inside there was an interview of sorts with her by […]

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SHEPHERDS AND SHEEP

Are we really living in a form of craftily designed two-headed benign dictatorship in Norneverland ,coming as it does , with a built-in “petition of concern” which can veto just about any decision which is made by a majority and overturn their view , steam-rolling any chance of change, flat on the ground? Is this […]

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