December, 2023

BY AZHAAR AMAYREH             DECEMBER 23, 2023  from Mondoweiss It seems almost assured we will not survive the bombings directed at us from every direction. If we don’t, I hope someone will appreciate and comprehend the hell my child and I went through in our last days. PALESTINIANS GATHER WITH POTS TO RECEIVE FOOD AT A DONATION POINT […]

    The Dublin government is taking the British government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)  in an attempt to thwart Britain’s Legacy Bill, which aims to stop all inquiries into violent events during the Troubles. But if they were successful, does anybody believe that the IRA or the UDA, not to mention […]

I’ve commented on this book before, and the moral compass of its author, whom I regard as a humbug.   Nurse Edith Cavell, was written into the Church of England Calendar of Saints shortly after her death at the hands of a German firing squad in Belgium in 1915.    It was reckoned that the […]

Should it be against the law to assist someone in dying? What about if they’re in terrible pain? And if a heart-broken partner, perfectly healthy, wants to go with them, should you assist that? If you favour a united Ireland, do you secretly delight in the fact that NEI is something of a basket case? […]

      Within about two weeks of Bloody Sunday in Derry (30th January 1972), Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Wilford, commander of the 1st Battalion of Britain’s Parachute Regiment, was awarded by his Sovereign with an Order of Chivalry.   Some 38 years later Lord Saville found that Wilford had disobeyed orders and Prime Minister David Cameron […]

      The 1916 Insurgents ensured that no inhabitants of any of the 32 counties of Ireland would  be subject to conscription into an armed institution.  Nearly one hundred and eight years later the inhabitants remain free of such an imposition.   Not only hundreds of thousands of Irish lives have thus been spared […]

J P McManus is an Irish  billionaire. He has also given away an awful lot of money to the GAA in every county in Ireland. Some clubs will receive as much as £30,000. Is this a case of a truly generous man, or is he simply dodging taxation while looking good in the public eye? […]

       It’ll probably come as a serious shock to many, but the Orange Order is not a religious organisation  – it’s a political one.  You could be forgiven for thinking it was a religious organisation, given that it was founded in  1795, after a Protestant sectarian gang had killed some 30 Catholics; given that, during […]

  One of the things we look for in a newspaper is consistency. It can’t one day be left-wing, the next right-wing. It can’t one day be  protesting about fossil fuels, the next calling for more turf-cutting. And it can’t be one day be putting the boot into the shadowy organisation called Sinn Féin and […]

  George Orwell did humanity a favour when he introduced the word ‘doublethink’. This referred to the ability some have of holding two opinions, one contradicting the other, at the same time. Take the US’s foreign policy. In the case of Ukraine, they are applauding that country of 38 million people for…what? For resisting the […]