February, 2023

Trade Union Rally, Guildhall, 21st February 2023  Mark Langhammer

  Colleagues….we’re in the battle of our generation. And I’m here to talk about the money! The pay of ordinary working people across every sector has, incrementally, bit by bit, over 40 years, gone steadily down – whilst returns to the wealthiest have risen inexorably: through corporate profit and shareholders dividends; through speculation and usury; […]

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The DUP and being smart

“It doesn’t cut the mustard”. That was the judgement yesterday of Ian Paisley, ever keen to draw attention to himself on any topic (with the obvious exception of sponsored holidays). What the mustard wasn’t being cut by, of course, was the latest (and, one hopes, final) version of the Protocol agreement between the EU and […]

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LOYALISTS UBER ALLES by Donal Kennedy

  Listening to James O’Brien and some commentators today concerning the just announced intended meeting of the British Monarch and the President of the European Commission it seemed to be agreed that the DUP would never find fault with the Monarch. The remote ancestors of the DUP repudiated King James the Second and helped bring […]

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Green and Red and the DUP

Am I missing something? Here’s a quotation from the RTÉ website just now: “The new deal would remove checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea from Britain and destined for Northern Ireland only.” These, we are told, will be ‘Green Channel’ goods, whereas those destined for the EU via the south of Ireland will be […]

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LIARS, OUTLIERS AND OUT-AND-OUT LIARS by Donal Kennedy

    The breathtakingly dishonest findings of the Widgery Tribunal into the Bloody Sunday massacre of January 1972 were finally dumped in the trashbin by Lord Saville’s  Report in 2010, 38 years after the atrocity. Prime Minister David Camera publicly declared the Widgery Report a travesty, and those murdered innocent of rioting or other provocation of […]

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OF MONUMENTS, COLUMNS AND MONUMENTAL LIES by Donal Kennedy

    In London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, one of several buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren to replace those destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666, there is the Inscription:- “Si Monumentum requiris, circumspice” meaning – “If you want his monument, look around” In London’s Pudding Lane stands “The Monument,” also designed by Wren, to […]

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THE BBC – THE WELL OF HISTORY DEFILED – by Donal Kennedy

  Forty one years ago, on Tuesday 23rd February !982 I turned on Radio 4 and was delighted to  find that its first news item featured Britain’s Press Council. Since May 1981 I had doggedly persisted. despite the Council’s attempts to drive me to despair, with a complaint about THE TIMES coverage (Friday 8th  May […]

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