November, 2023

  What do you think of Jacob Rees-Mogg? Yes, I used to think that way about him too – like he’d escaped from the pages of a comic, where he’d been Lord Snooty’s right-hand-man. A Tory, but basically harmless. I mean, how could you feel anything but amusement at someone who called the sixth of […]

Remarks Addressing Emergency Motion on Palestine. Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2023   In 1998 our peace settlement created new horizons for future generations.   Five years previously the Oslo Accords were agreed.   For the first time since 1948 Palestinians had some hope.   Immediately, successive Israeli governments started to undermine the negotiated 2 state solution.   Today in Palestine there is no […]

    Just imagine for a moment what a post-nuclear apocalyptic holocaust might look like.     A destroyed landscape.   People wandering the streets, in a state of traumatic shock.   No shelter, no clean water, no food.   Just the clothes on their backs and the shoes on their feet.   Distraught children […]

I’ve just been rereading  BLOGS   including THE MORAL COMPASS OF GORDON BROWN                                             (July 8 2019)                 IS GORDON BROWN  HUMBUG ?            […]

  I think it was 2008 when I first became aware of Douglas Kear Murray, then aged 29.   The Sunday Times reported that he had written a play about Raoul Wallenberg, a heroic Swede who had negotiated the safety of thousands of Jews in Hungary who would otherwise have been murdered by the NAZI […]

It’d be safe to say that the majority of people in Britain and Ireland favour a ceasefire in Gaza. Yet our politicians refuse to vote for such a motion: the best they can bring themselves to call for is a temporary halt. Are these politicians brainless as well as heartless   ‘Up Front With Katie […]

John Cushnahan, former Alliance Party leader and Fine Gael MEP, had a letter in the Irish Times.  In it he took Sinn Fein to task for criticising the Israel bombardment of Gaza which has led to the deaths of over 11,000 people, including women, children and infants. Not that John, a former Alliance Party leader […]

    No water,no medicine,no fuel,no food,no hope : that is the daily reality of life for Gazans suffering under these unbearable, intolerable vicious unwarranted attacks.   All of the above facts are crimes against humanity and war crimes under the 4th Geneva convention. Article 18 refers specifically to the safe guarding of hospitals . […]

Goodbye Suella Braverman,  hello (again) David Cameron. Not many of us saw Cameron coming back but most of us knew it was either Rishi or Suella,  so a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do. The latest opinion polls show Sinn Féin leading by 6% in the North and by – wait for it […]

        I’ve just come from watching Mark Carruthers get all aggressive with Mary Lou McDonald. Mark was speaking up for the Dublin media, which apparently are very upset with Sinn Féin.  You may say “So what else is new? The Dublin media are forever putting the boot into Sinn Féin”.   True. […]