July, 2022

Well, he didn’t say “ You won’t have Boris Johnson around to kick any more!” but he did get in a few digs. Like when   he talked about “the herd”, and how it had moved on. And when he reminded the viewers that he was the guy that won so amazingly well in that general […]

    About 30 years ago a couple I knew decided to indulge their passion for Tory politics by joining the Party (or the Paaty as they call it over there). This led to them being regular attenders at various functions including the Annual Paaty Conference.   They mentioned to me, on a number of […]

There’s clearly been a mistake. With all the fuss and resignations and confusion and refusal, it’s hard for even the brightest minds to include attention to everything. That’s why, in this crisis over Boris Johnson’s leadership, they’ve forgotten to include the protocol. Mind you, while it’s understandable it’s also a bit surprising. Theresa May said […]

    Trying to explain away his unprovoked war on Iraq, Tony Blair pleaded that it was out of loyalty to Britain’s oldest ally.   Britain’s oldest ally (inherited) from England is Portugal, which in 1945 went into ten days mourning on the death of Hitler. In 1945 Britain was an ally of the USA, […]

 So what was it that brought down – or shortly will- the tousle-headed joker who got caught on a zip-wire and waved Union flags while millions adored him? What was it that brought him – or soon will- to his knees, his lying gob in the dirt? Some would say it was his lying gob. […]

This TV Review first appeared in the Andersonstown News TV REVIEW Wasn’t Derry great last Saturday, beating Clare to get to the All-Ireland Football semi-final? Even if you weren’t an honorary Derry person like myself, you had to hand it to the Derry forwards for putting the ball in the Clare net within minutes of […]

Did you see Leo V  Part 2 on Sunday? In the second part of his interview with Mark Carruthers,  the Tanaiste talks further about the idea of a new Ireland. Are Irish people too nice? When we get a crappy meal in a restaurant, or when the bill is a euro or pound over what […]

  July 1, 2022 Pierre de Gaulle The speech that follows was given by Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of Charles de Gaulle, at the Russian  Embassy in Paris, on June 14, 2022, to mark Russia Day. It is a speech that has been heavily censored in France and we are happy to provide this English […]

.   On October 5 1938, following the  Munich Agreement, with which he DID NOT agree, Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons. You may find some of his comments interesting – “We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen  Great Britain and France. Do not let us […]