Belfast Solicitors Brentnall acting on behalf of a client are seeking a possible judicial review of the decision by OFCOM to revoke the television license for RT, formerly known as Russia Today, from broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Ofcom (Office of Communications) is the regulator for the communications services and the post office of […]
March, 2022
MARK CARRUTHERS BITES COLUM EASTWOOD
I’ve just come from watching Mark Carruthers interview SDLP leader Colum Eastwood. Carruthers has changed over the years: he used to be a fairly gentle interviewer – In fact I remember suggesting to him that he might profit by adding some serious bite to his questioning, and he rejected such an approach. Not any more: […]
NICKNAMED “THE THUNDERER” FOR ITS BOOMING PRONOUNCEMENTS WHEN BRITANNIA TERRORISED ALL CREATURES LIVING ON LAND OR SEA, THE FORMER IMPERIAL ORGAN IS NOW A MERE HOOTER. NOBODY READING IT TODAY COULD GIVE TWO HOOTS FOR IT – by Donal Kennedy
It carries a letter from Lord Howard of Newport, a former member of Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee, defending Tony Blair from an accusation that he, his spin-doctor Alastair Campbell, and Sir John Scarlett, of peddling falsehoods to justify the 2003 attack on Iraq. ( The attack on Iraq was not sanctioned by the […]
WAS THE NAZI GOVERNMENT UNIQUELY EVIL? – by Donal Kennedy 
The best service Hitler did humanity was blowing his brains out. His regime lasted but a dozen years and was thoroughly evil. But can we honestly say that no other regime rivalled or surpassed it in wickedness? Nearly thirty years ago my wife and I made our first visit to Rome, seat of the greatest […]
So much for Peaceful, Democratic Means – by Michael Lagan
So much for Unionists and Loyalists using peaceful, democratic means to halt or scrap the NI Protocol. As most will be aware now, a hoax bomb was driven to the Houben Centre on the Crumlin Road while Simon Coveney was giving a talk on peace-building. Not only was a cross-community peace-building event disrupted by the […]
HOW LIBERAL IS THE BBC? HOW WELL DOES IT REFLECT ITS FOUNDER?
The BBC’s first Director-General John Reith was reputed to have insisted on its equal representation of all viewpoints. The Corporation continues to claim that it follows his guidelines and annually broadcasts lectures named in his honour, by some prominent expert, chosen by someone dedicated to that principle. I have heard and watched little on the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT ARLENE AND PADDY’S DAY, DYING OF EMBARRASSMENT, P&O LAW-BREAKING – AND UKRAINE
Arlene Foster is complaining that St Patrick’s Day is ‘too green’ – that it’s at times at least an insult to the unionist people. EH?? Have we mastered Covid? Or are we trying to tell ourselves it’s gone away when it hasn’t? And do you not wear a mask, not because you think you don’t […]
COALS TO NEWCASTLE, HOARES TO PARIS, AND A CLOWN TO LEINSTER HOUSE by Donal Kennedy
In 1935 British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare made a pact with the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval, to allocate most of Abyssinia, which belonged to neither Britain nor France, to Italy, then ruled by Benito Mussolini. Public opinion in Britain was sufficiently enlightened to disapprove and Hoare had to resign. NO MORE COALS TO […]
THE HUMBUGGERY OF MR. GORDON BROWN by Donal Kennedy
— MR GORDON BROWN WANTS PRESIDENT PUTIN TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES . There’s no chance that he will go to catch the President himself. And probably no need for him to concoct a dodgy dossier. It seems to me that has been compiled by experts already. And judges of the […]
THE DARK VALLEY – THE 1930s AND SOME SHADY CHARACTERS – by Donal Kennedy
I probably should go out more. But what with the pandemic, ageing bones and cramped muscles and the result of a “minor” stroke, normal socialising in pubs parties etc, have been much curtailed. Besides I’m a bibliophile with a promiscuous collection of books some of which I dip into repeatedly as if they were […]