SF played a blinder, they showed how to be civil to your neighbour regardless of your differences and history. The DUP can’t show the same civility and that’s not lost on Charles.Charles had a bit of craic with Alex and Michelle. He more-a-less pleaded that continuity and reconciliation continue; that’s out-of-step with the mindset of […]
September, 2022
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE ROYAL VISIT, LEO vs MICHEÁl, BERTIE, AND A WOMAN WHO SWALLOWED BATTERIES
Is Sinn Féin in the driving seat in NEI? It looked that way, when King Charles came to town. Can the DUP ever recover from its present doldrums? Would an election help? There has been protest in Britain against Charles assuming the role of King. Is Britain tolerant of anti-monarchists, or does dissent get shut […]
King Charles visit and SF: not the way it should be
These are not good times to be a unionist – or more precisely, a DUPer. Queen Elizabeth dies, the DUP stand ready to express their sorrow and burnishing their image with the British public, an image currently so soiled you’d need a bottle of Brasso taken to it. But hey, here’s an opportunity. King Charles […]
BRITISH RECRUITING IN IRELAND FOR THE GREAT WAR – by Donal Kennedy
As a contribution to the Decade of Remembrance I sent the piece below to THE IRISH EXAMINER, which it was kind enough to publish on 28 December 2013 (my 72nd Birthday.) Two of my Mother’s 4 brothers served in the British Forces in that conflict.. Jack, aged 16 was wounded serving on HMS Princess […]
Britain heads for the Dark Ages – by Fra Hughes
Will the United Kingdom ever have a people led social revolution as it heads back into the dark ages? Wow , just wow ! Britain is about to enter a sustained period of recession to include black outs and energy rationing. This is not Lebanon under attack from an American inspired devaluation of their currency […]
FROM A LUNAR CHATEAU by Donal Kennedy
Though NASA was unable recently to revisit the Moon, you will see from above my good self at my Lunar Chateau relaxing in the Var in Southern Provence, three miles from the Med for the first time in three years. My wife and I first stayed on this site in a hired […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT BOOING ROYS, PEACE & UKRAINE, BOJO & TRUTH, & CHARLES III = CHARLES THE LAST?
Apparently as Queen Elizabeth’s coffin was being transferred in Edinburgh, amid the many cheering and clapping, there was a number who in fact BOOED. And apparently there was a car cavalcade in the Bogside celebrating the death of Queen Elizabeth. Is that the worst of bad taste? Or have people a right to differ, regardless […]
ELIZABETH II: THE SILENT YEARS – by Michael J Cummings
The 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II may be forever marred by the legacy of lawlessness—a war by most measures— the British government waged in their colonial carve-out of Ireland. Prime Minister Truss and the Conservatives have a plan to bury part of that past and, in the process, to avoid a “State sponsor of terrorism” label. Parliament […]
WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS: Truss to scrap rule of law in NI? by Michael J Cummings
British Prime Minister Truss’s campaign pit-stop in Northern Ireland offered no comfort for the families of more than 1000 civilians killed in N. I. She has pledged support for a cover-up bill which would grant amnesty to the killers, end litigation, deny liability claims and close the books on any future investigations into, for example, […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE DEATH. OF QE2 AND THE ERG HARDLINERS APPOINTED TO NEI…
There was plenty of rain in London yesterday, but the day will be remembered for the end of the long reign of Queen Elizabeth. Does her death lead Britain into a dodgy period? And was her visit to the south of Ireland in 2011, when she visited the Garden of Remembrance, a game-changeer? Meanwhile, Liz […]