November, 2022

THE MERETRICIOUS ART OF SIMON SCHAMA – by Donal Kennedy

Last night BBC2 devoted more than an hour to Simon Schama’s “HISTORY OF NOW”.   He depicted Picasso’s “Guernica, praised George Orwell and spent much time attacking the Soviet Union, China and the various BETES NOIR of Britain’s current establishment. Oh and he was unsympathetic to Franco’s Fascists. He neglected the fact that British Intelligence officers flew General […]

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Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria – by Patrick Anderson

  The so-called ‘Troubles’ have been replaced by a new controversy with unionists and journalists railing against ‘rewriting’ history. For Unionists the conflict was about a ‘democracy beset by irrationalism terrorism.’ For Irish republicans it was a war of resistance to British repression. This book uses Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model to evaluate the media coverage […]

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Scotland and Ireland wait for their master’s voice

Thursday was a tale of two cities: Edinburgh and Belfast. Those gathered in both shared a similar goal – to govern their own country. Not really asking too much.  In Ukraine,  the Western world hails the Ukrainians . Only yesterday Britain delivered three war helicopters to add to the massive supply of arms the Ukraine […]

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DULCE ET DECORUM? by Donal Kennedy

      This was first published here in January 2016. Another stop on Memory Lane..  Under “NAUGHTY”   I alluded to the fact that in England the Prime Minister comes next in precedence to the Archbishop of York, who is himself less honoured than the Lord Chancellor and the Archbishop of Canterbury. It’s a […]

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A new Ireland From an Old Union – by Michael Lagan

.Listening to last night’s Ireland’s Future contributions from Glenn Bradley, Denzil McDaniel, Claire Mitchell, Lorraine Hall, and Ben Collins, something became extremely clear: more and more Protestants in the North not only see a united Ireland as viable…but see themselves as Irish.  Claire Mitchell, in her contributions, said she had spoken with many Protestants from […]

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