The paper has always been puffed up with its own self importance and never been a stickler for the truth. It has always been petty and stupid. When the idea of John Hume’s candidacy for the Irish Presidency was mooted it thundered in an editorial that idea was unacceptable because the man was born in […]
May, 2022
GEORGE SOROS AND THE OPEN SOCIETY – ARE THEY REALLY FRIENDS?
The billionaire George Soros is undoubtedly a very generous man. As of March 2021 he is reported to have donated $32,000,000,000 to Open Society Foundations. Which left him to grub along with a mere $8.6,000,000.000 for his own needs. I take it he is a man of a modest and retiring nature. Because if he […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE PROTOCOL, AN AMNESTY WHEEZE, AND ALLIANCE PEOPLE VOTING IN A BORDER POLL
Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have declared that, if necessary, they will tear up parts of the protocol agreement with the EU. Jeffrey Donaldson says he’ll stay in Westminster until that happens. Should Jeffrey take out a 25-year mortgage? The British government has come up with a sing-and-go-free solution to lethal acts during the Troubles. […]
People in glass houses
This blog first appeared as a column in The Andersonstown News Why do so many countries abhor what Russia is doing in the Ukraine? Primarily because so many people are being killed, wounded, displaced. But beyond that barbarism, there lies a second reason for disgust: Putin, by invading the Ukraine, is showing contempt for international […]
Jeffrey D : in dreams and in daylight
What is Jeffrey Donaldson like? Well in a dream I had at the weekend he was a schoolboy, but somehow at the same time he was a soldier. It seems a bit crazy now but in the dream it made perfect sense. I remember Jeffrey had to go on tiptoe to ring my bell, and […]
Doing the sums with my man Conor
I have always been poor at Maths, which maybe explains why I’m reluctant to dive down into the bowels of our political system and come up with numbers that tell you which way the wind is blowing. However, in recent days I have been in contact with a young guy (well, youngish) who approaches figures […]
Bob Dylan was right…
It’ll come as no surprise that the DUP are now being undemocratic in their stance on taking the DFM role in Stormont. I desperately want to label them the Undemocratic Unionist Party, but that would be unfair to the UUP. Everyone knew this was going to happen, Sinn Fein was going to become the largest […]
SLEEPWALKING INTO WAR, WITH EYES WIDE OPEN ? REVEALING ENTRIES IN C.P.SCOTT’S DIARIES – by Donal Kennedy
Page 60 and 61 of the extracts are dated 7th January 1912. and relate to a conversation with the then Lord Chancellor Loreburn. “Germany for years has been trying to make friends. ‘Incredible the way she has been repulsed. For 3 years have been pressing for information. Questions constantly evaded sometimes with actual falsehoods. Later […]
“SCOTS WHA HAE WI’ WALLACE BLED” or “GO AND SOAK YER SILLY HEAD”? by Donal Kennedy
Do the antics of The Rt. Hon. Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, MP, Former Captain in the Scots Guards and currently HM’s Secretary of State for Defence, have President Putin shaking in his boots? In a Cabinet led by Boris Johnson, with Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary, in a Parliamentary House led by Jacob Rees […]
IAUC STATEMENT ON NORTHERN ELECTIONS by Peter Kissel
May 9, 2022…The Irish American Unity Conference [IAUC] hails the election results of May 5 in the North of Ireland. The people of the North have voted decisively for Nationalist and centrist parties, which will make Sinn Fein the largest political party. It is widely understood that Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill will thus […]