February, 2023

  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; […]

“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 […]

  Is it really one year already? Did anyone say it would be over by Christmas like they did in 1914 ?  Well Christmas has come and gone and very much like the trenches of the First World War, ground lost and won can some times be measured in single digit metres and kilometres. To […]

  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 […]

So – this is what the Germans refer to as ‘Der Tag’ – The Day. The day that Rishi Sunak finally hammered out the Protocol problem in such a way that the UK feels it has achieved Brexit status while still looking after the welfare of our stateen. But will Green Channels and Red Channels […]

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 […]

    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 […]

  ‘Give peace a chance’ – just about everybody knows that line from the John Lennon song, and just about everybody agrees with its sentiments. So how come China appears to be the only country calling for peace in Ukraine? A report recently issued on Travellers finds that Travellers are six times as likely to […]

    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 […]

  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 […]