October, 2022

The British Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng had had to eat some of that nasty dish – humble pie – and reinstate the 45% tax on the top earners. Is he doomed? Was Jim Allister right when he said that the 3 Arena rally on Saturday was a wash-out? Steve Baker, former ERG chairman, has apologised for […]

Is Steve Baker Eating his pie Alone?   Sticks and stones may break my bones…but sometimes words just aren’t enough.  Steve Baker, NI Minister has apologised to Ireland and the EU for “Not always behaving in a way that would mean they would trust us in the Brexit negotiations.”  The problem with that is the […]

    Under the iron fist of a Protestant Ulster for a Protestant people, Catholics and most certainly Irish Nationalists were treated like second-class humans, at worst animals.  The recent census statistics and Catholic reactions to them have been largely misinterpreted by Unionists, and while Protestants aren’t an issue, with Protestants and Catholics by and […]

    Sometimes decades of political change can happen within periods of months. That’s one way to characterise developments in Ireland over recent times. One hundred years after the one party ‘orange state’ was politically and socially engineered in the north of Ireland to maintain an in-built unionist majority, all the evidence confirms that partition has entered its […]

I had another call recently with King Chales.   I asked him about meeting Michelle. He noted that he was fond of blondes and Michelle was “right fit”.   What did he make of Alex I enquired? Chales was very clear. Alex is his type of a lad and he and Alex will have a […]

So – that big Ireland’s Future meeting in Dublin’s 3 Arena – will it fail if it doesn’t sell out? And is it a celebration or the beginning of planning for a united Ireland? Stephen Collins in the Irish Times notes how the Dublin budget was generally well received, whereas that in London was like […]