May, 2022

  Last  night (Sunday) I accidentally turned on Sky News. And briefly stepped into a  dirty piece of propaganda calculated to persuade its viewers that President Putin was a deluded clown obsessed with personal power. A few days ago I watched a video of the Russian addressing an international security conference in Munich 15 years ago in […]

That big Orange march on Saturday – was it threatening violence?  You ‘ d say no – it all passed off peacefully. But if the Rev Mervyn Gibson says “We are British and British we’ll stay – No Surrender!” – is that not putting the finger up to what the GFA has promised? Dublin Airport […]

  Dear Cousin Trevor, Aw boys, you missed it, Trevor… I know, I know – when a kicking heifer kicks you in your reproductive areas, the only thing for it is the bed. I know that. But boys a boys, you missed it. It was powerful. The whole shebang was organised by the Orange Order, […]

Are you familiar with Politico? No, nor me, until I noted that Suzanne Lynch, who was The Irish Times correspondent in Washington, left that paper and joined Politico as one of their staff in Brussels. I like Suzanne and not just because she chaired the launch of my book Martin McGuinness: the man I knew […]

As the world and its mother know by now, the American delegation to the North has infuriated some unionist politicians by making references to a ‘manufactured’ problem in the protocol , AND  to the existence of ‘The Planter and the Gael’. We probe the thinking behind this. Did Sue Gray let Boris Johnson off the […]

    BRITAIN’S ROYAL LYING CORPS  YESTERDAY FLEW NOT IN SINGLE  LIES  BUT DROVES, The BBC , THE TIMES and all TV Channels turned their guns on China. Anti-Chinese propaganda has been increasing for years. Chinese police in Hong Kong were subjected to physical attacks by masked rioters carrying various weapons (not firearms) and refrained […]

What is it with some people, that when an uncomfortable  truth is spoken they go a bit bananas? I can think of at least two past occasions when I made a comment that was truthful in every way, but a great number of people were so furious, they would cheerfully have taken my naked body […]

I saw Allison Morris, late of that venerable organ The Irish News and currently of The Belfast Telegraph, on UTV’s Spotlight  recently.  In it she said she just loved censuses  – there was so much you could do with the figures. She got that one right. According to a recent NI Life and Times survey, […]

There were two letters in THE IRISH TIMES yesterday (24 May) which convincingly put the case for the return to the Irish non-belligerence in disputes between the Great Power Blocs and constructive neutrality as pursued for many decades by Eamon de Valera and Frank Aiken,  though of course neither of those statesmen got a mention. […]

I see where unionist politicians and ‘commentators’ like Jamie Bryson are critical of the US delegation because they are judged to be one-sided – too green. Gordon Lyons, DUP MLA, told the B(ritish)BC “We’re going to have a particular challenge with Congressman Neal”. Jamie Bryson, it seems, has Richie Neal marked as a supporter of […]