May, 2017

The recent film about Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, like all historical films, is littered with historical inaccuracies – anyone with a faint hint of knowledge about the Saint Andrew’s era agreement will know that. But what surprised me about it was the tenacity with which it propagates the narrative that somehow the DUP leader […]

  There are a number of threats to our planet Earth. Firstly, climate change could have disastrous consequences if human beings do not change their habits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, there is pollution of our waterways and seas which will destroy marine life. Thirdly, Nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare could destroy the whole […]

  ,     Some time ago I referred to a TV programme presented by Penelope Keith, set in England’s West Country,which showed a crowd of yokels following an ancient ritual where they chased and and did to death “the Traitor Earl of Tyrone” known to his close friends as Aodh O Neill  and his many […]

First pride, then the fall. Jeremy Corbyn emerged as the undisputed winner in the question-taking/Paxman-interview head-to-head with Theresa May the other night. But the cheers had hardly died down when he went on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour and couldn’t produce a figure for the free pre-school care his manifesto has promised. There we go – […]

I listened to RTÉ’s Today programme yesterday and presenter Sean O’Rourke went into an ad break with the promise that he’d be looking at the British general election on the other side of it. And so he did, chatting to some expert in England about how Corbyn was doing, how May was doing. When the […]

‘Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you. For that is how this people persecuted the prophets who lived before you.’ Matthew 5:11 I am reminded of these words after listening to Nolan this morning. Such was the vile vicious attack on Jeremy Corbyn by […]

The obituary in THE TIMES (29 May) of an ex- National Security  adviser to the United States illustrates the debt of gratitude we all owe to that super-power, its satellites, puppets and sycophants for sleeping secure in our beds. I quote –          “On Brzezinski’s watch China received support for backing Pol […]

Say what you like about the BBC – and a lot of people do – but it is meticulously even-handed. Last night Jeremy Corbyn produced a performance that left Theresa May looking  like a woman who had supped full of horrors, but you’d never guess from listening to the Today programme on BBC radio this […]

The title of this article is a reference to the extraordinary book by Michael Farrell, “Arming The Protestants”, which I highly recommend to you all as essential to understanding not the Irish question, but rather the British problem in Ireland. And of course it has heavily influenced my thinking. Let me say first and foremost, […]

  ,Over 20 years ago Jenkins crossed the Atlantic to give White House Staff a Bum Briefing on the IRA, to dissuade the Americans from giving Gerry Adams a Visa, and thus to abort the Peace Process and thwart the campaign of Albert Reynolds, John Hume and others. Today he, correctly supports Jeremy Corbyn’s comments […]