It’s been denounced as a shocking example of secrecy and privilege. It took a three-year battle with the British Cabinet Office to get them to cough up the information that Prince Charles had been receiving confidential cabinet papers for decades. Stuff regarding secret proposals for new legislation and other discussion documents that the public won’t […]
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In the footsteps of C. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
When it comes to voting for independence via referendum, most people appear to vote with their wallets. At least that was the assumption behind David Cameron’s last-minute promise of untold riches on the eve of the Scottish independence referendum. If that is so, maybe it’s time those who pay taxes into the British Exchequer […]
Leadership, referenda and when is it time to stop?
Picture by itla4u People – including Enda Kenny – were talking yesterday about how ‘Ireland’ (that’d be the twenty-six counties) has proved itself a bold, splendid, equal…I can’t remember the exact words but I got the general drift for sure…’Ireland’ had proved itself a wonderful ‘country’. Is he right? Maybe. If we judge by the numbers […]
Discrimination in death
Noel Whelan had a piece in yesterday’s Irish Times, warning us that in our admiration for the forgiving spirit of those close to the victims of the Mullaghmore explosion – Louis Mountbatten, young Paul Maxwell and Nicholas Knatchbull, 83-year-old Dorothy Brabourne – we must not forget the foul deed that was done that day, and the […]
That handshake vs locking yourself in the past and swallowing the key
Picture by odcat1 I was on the Nolan Show this morning, with Jim Allister and Ruth Dudley Edwards. The topic, of course, was the upcoming handshake of Gerry Adams with Prince Charles in Galway, as the Windsor One heads for Mullaghmore and the site of his great-uncle’s killing. Jim, predictably, found a lot to […]
Prince Charles: he’s got high hopes
Picture by James Chapelard I’ll say one thing for Prince Charles: he has hopes beyond his station. He hopes to succeed to the throne (if his mummy lets him); he hopes to lead the charge against modern architecture, for alternative medicine, for the cause of the albatross, that the troublesome Diana will be forgotten and […]