W When the Japanese bombed the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hitler honoured his alliance with Japan and declared war on the United States. Seeking to defend their unprovoked attack on Iraq in 2003 Tony Blair and George W Bush declared that in 1939 and 1941 Britain and The United States went to war […]
July, 2019
Note to all media: please start nailing lies
OK, class, your attention, please. I have a question for you today. Actually I had the same question for you yesterday and the day before that, but I didn’t think I should inflict it on my faithful readers – life is hard enough. But today, after the visit of the two men who are arm-wrestling […]
The Swiss-French border and backstop balderdash
I was talking to a man yesterday and he said that there was far too much being made of delays at the border, if and when Brexit happened. “Sealed containers” he said. “Clearance at place of origin, sealed containers, electronic reading of seal – no delay.” As with so many things, I began to think […]
LAPDOG BITES BULLDOG (47) by Perkin Warbeck
SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the PRIDE parade in Dublin (sic), in possession of the good fortune of a subservient media, must be in want of an AP. And that AP is, of course, as apt an acronym as one could prey for: – AND PREJUDICE. The Parade where Mickey […]
IT’S NOT ABOUT FINTAN. HE COULDA FOOLED YA? by Donal Kennedy
In my blog – “Sense, Sensibility and Fintan O’Toole” (28 June 2018) I commented on his “How I found out what I felt about abortion” in THE IRISH TIMES of 14 June 2018. His piece can be googled if you’d like to read it. Fintan protested that the article was not about him. The first […]
Gay pride and forgotten people
I love Dublin. It captured my heart during my twenties and it has remained its captive. I love the Georgian buildings, the tree-lined streets, the Dublin mountains, the accents, the pubs. And of course I love the memories the place holds for me. The capital city was looking particularly colourful on Saturday morning as I […]