February, 2022

Terrible events In the Donbass i have close friends there .     The persecution of Palestine. Normalising the abnormal White washing Zionist war crimes.      In order to see where we are today sometimes it is necessary to review the past.     While some may claim the past is a country we […]

  I’ve heard it said that the only good Tory is a dead one, and declined to support it, on the ground that there might be a good one somewhere, probably in hiding.  But one dead Tory, Samuel Johnson, in my view a very good man, gave as his opinion that patriotism was the last […]

  The climate crisis is upon us – but are there enough people taking it seriously enough? Do we need to appeal to people’s better nature or should we make environmental awareness mandatory?   Why is it seen as anti-Semitic to criticise Israel? Amnesty has produced a report criticising apartheid in Israel and has come […]

We have a special mid-week podcast today. That’s because our special guest is Ray Bassett, former Irish ambassador to the Bahamas and Canada. He talks about the ‘collusive activity’ that Ombudsman Marie Anderson has unearthed,and about his platform as a candidate in a coming by-election for the Seanad. As with Eoin O Broin and housing, […]

      The film ‘Belfast’ opens with a violent scene in a Belfast street on 15 August 1969 showing Protestants smashing windows in Catholic homes and others, presumably Catholics, rioting. This was the street in which Kenneth Branagh once lived with his mother, father and older brother. It was mixed Protestant and Catholic. His […]

   THE TIMES  carries (Feb 15) a review by Carol Midgley headlined  “Hitler, Stalin and a new look at how evil grows.”   Her review was okay. I saw the programme, which mixed genuine newsreel pictures with actors dressed up as Hitler, Stalin and others, and commentary by titled British spooks and other worthies. . […]

  I just found in amongst my papers a letter of mine published in THE IRISH WORLD (London) on the 2nd October 2005. It goes far to explain why most Britishers know next to nothing about Ireland, as David Aaronovitch, himself a misinformant, recently complained in THE TIMES. “PETER LENNON describes in his interview with […]

  DAVID AARONOVITCH IN THE TIMES (OF LONDON) RECENTLY ASKED WHY PEOPLE ON BRITAIN WERE SO IGNORANT ABOUT IRELAND. In the early 1970s his paper had an outstanding correspondent in Ireland,Robert Fisk. Fisk died just over a year ago after many decades of honest and brave reporting from the world’s bloodiest trouble spots for other […]

The latest political opinion poll shows the gap between Sinn Féin and the DUP has narrowed. Is the internal DUP crisis over? Will Jeffrey lead them to sunny uplands come May?  Bookings for flights to the sun have jumped hugely, especially for seniors. Do we all deserve a break, or will this bring us back […]

    The media recently reported in apparent astonishment. that a woman in her nineties could remember hearing of the death of her father some seventy years ago and of her own accession to the throne of England.   Though unaware of any family connection at the time (I was ten years old) I can […]