Unique. Unprecedented. That’s what they called the storming of the Capitol building in Washington last night, where windows were broken, police barriers breached and the mob, egged on by their leader’s words, tried to subvert the democratic decision to elect Joe Biden. It may have been unique and unprecedented for people in Washington, but for […]
January, 2021
Never mind the exams – why are children taught this stuff in the first place?
As someone who has spent all of his working life in education, I think there are a few matters that need discussion, springing particularly from concerns about the impact of Covid-19 on education. The big debate, here and in Britain, has been, should children be kept at home or should they go to school? A […]
Letter in the Washington Post by Peter Kissel
Dear Irish Friends – The Washington Post has today published a letter I submitted in response to a puff piece – total BS — by UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab. My letter calls him out on the Criminal Conduct Bill, the soldier amnesty bill, and the denial of the Finucane inquiry. I include the digital version below […]
PROUDLY JOIN OVER 23,000 SIGNERS by Fr Sean McManus
PROUDLY JOIN OVER 23,000 SIGNERS DEDICATED TO JUSTICE, UNITY, SOLIDARITY, AND PEACE. If you have already Signed, please regard this as reminder of our mutual honor, privilege, and duty to promote justice and peace in Ireland. We can all recruit more and more good people to sign this splendid Petition. Indeed, we can regard that as […]
PAT +JUDE TALK ABOUT THE IRISH PROTOCOL, TRUMP AND ‘LOST’ VOTES, AND PERSONAL HIGH POINTS OF 2020
Arlene Foster was on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, speaking of how in four years time, the present border-in-the-Irish-Sea would be renegotiated. Is she trying to pretend all this wasn’t the work of the DUP? President Trump has been leaning rather heavily on a Georgia election official, trying to persuade him he should find […]
Trump tells Georgia official “I need you to find votes”
CNN yesterday evening was full of it: breaking news which would leave people stunned, astounded, outraged. It was, of course, that President Donald Trump was recorded talking to Georgia’s top election official, telling him that he needed to find 11,780 votes, because he, Trump, won the election and it just wasn’t fair. I don’t feel […]
The Death of a Resistance Fighter: Lt General Qassem Soleimani. by Fra Hughes
January 3rd 2021 marks the first anniversary of the martyrdom of one of Iran’s foremost Generals, military leaders and regional strategists. He was murdered in Bagdad the capital of Iraq, alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy Commander of the Hashd al-Shaabi known locally as the PMU, Popular Mobilisation Units, a part of the Iraqi armed forces. […]
Remainers: vanished or just gone quiet?
Where have all the Remainers gone? You must remember the Remainers – they formed 48% of the voting population in the UK, 56% of the voting population in North(east)ern Ireland (NEI) and 62% of the voting population in Scotland. That’s a lot of people. As B Johnson grabs the tiller wheel of HMS Britannia, we […]
PHILANTHROPY, MISANTHROPY, ANGLOPHILIA, ANGLOPHOBIA ANGLOPHOBIA, ASSHOLES AND ASSHOLE CRAWLING by Donal Kennedy
Philanthropy is the love of all mankind and misanthropy is the opposite. Xenophobia, bigotry and snobbery are misanthropic. In Britain the highest-ranking misanthrope is the Duke of Edinburgh. Widely known for his ignorance and loutishness and recognised as a louse, he aspires after he expires to return as a virus to wipe out the world’s […]