March, 2024

Frank Hester has a lot pf money. That’s why he gave £10 million to the Tory party. Needless to say, none of the Tories thought Frank was any other than a loaded boy scout, honourable and upright and rich. In their exclusive clubs, if someone raised Frank’s name in the same sentence as racist,  the […]

FELTWELL – WINSTON CHURCHILL’S GENOCIDAL WET DREAM                 From June 1940 onwards Germany occupied Continental Europe’s Atlantic Coast from the North of Norway to the the Franco/Spanish border. Britain, which for some twenty years had used chemical weapons to “police” Iraq and other “barbarian” territories,and approved of such […]

Dear God!   THE IRISH TIMES published letters trashing its advice to the people of Ireland.   Is this a record?   Nearly 5  years before  the people enacted our Constitution, on the advice of De Valera,  and ignored that paper’s warning (in February 1933 ) that a return of  Fianna Fail to power would […]

  President Joe Biden has declared that Rafah is a red line which must not be crossed. Netenyahu has said he’s going to finish the job of destroying Hamas. Is Biden playing politics, or has he, however belatedly, seen the light? The Oscars happened last night and Cillian Murphy got his Oscar. He also spoke […]

There are reasons why the public want to have the Freddie Scappatici story revealed in full, and many reasons why the British government want many aspects of it to remain under wraps. But the most anxious to hear the full truth are the families of those killed by Scapattici’s ‘nutting squad’. The period of the […]

  Randy Woodley points to the values that have been essential to Indigenous wisdom:   Why would human beings promote systems, structures, ideologies, and lifestyles that work against their own survival? Good air quality is also a medicine. So is clean water. And healthy soil. Even a stress-free life is known to prolong people’s lives. […]

How sleepy (or alert) did Joe Biden seem during his State of the Union address yesterday? Will he be able to withstand the Trump voters in November? Right now Trump is well ahead in the polls. And what kind of person is a Trump voter? It’s not as if Trump were a novelty. But poorer, […]

As a practising Catholic I try to pay attention to public utterances by the clergy of the Catholic Church. So when Father Brendan Hoban published a column in The Western People I made a point of reading it. It’s titled ‘Sorry is still the hardest word for Sinn Féin’, No smudged on-the-one-hand-on-the-other here. For Father […]

I’ve just listened to a group of…worthies on Raidio Uladh discussing the BBC Four programme from last night. Naturally, they focused on the part that dealt with the BBC here in the 1960s, and how the British public were kept in the dark about the discrimination, gerrymandering and plain old sectarianism that prevailed at the […]

  Professor Jon Tonge has conducted a survey in the Alliance Party and has found that the number of  Alliance members favourably disposed towards a united Ireland is much increased. What are the ramifications of that, if any? BBC FOUR put out a programme last night noting how difficult BBC NI made it for any […]