Prince Harry’s book Spare has broken all records by selling 1.4 million copies on the first day of its publication. The publishers have printed 2.5 million copies and are fairly confident they’ll shift the lot. Penguin/Random House are said to have paid Harry $20 million for the book. There are even some reports that suggests […]
January, 2023
Syria 12 Years a slave – by Fra Hughes
It’s hard to believe the war on Syria started 12 years ago in 2011. Not so hard to believe perhaps for the people living under the hardships they are enduring for a foreign inspired, funded, trained and armed regime change operation, culminating in the theft of Syria’s national resources of oil and wheat. An […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT BLOCKING MARY LOU, ELVIS’S DAUGHTER, RUSSIA/CHINA, EATING OUT & RADIO FOYLE
Was it British arrogance, or a desire to keep the DUP onside, that led to the refusal to let Mary Lou McDonald into those talks? And will the DUP rue the day that the presence of the Sinn Féin leader was forbidden? Lisa Marie Presley , the daughter of Elvis, has died in her early […]
Nice one, Mr Cleverly
Is James Cleverly clever? Or maybe buck stupid? Yesterday he managed to turn what should have been an adult discussion of the protocol and the need for a resurrected Stormont into a clusterduck. He did this by blocking the leader of Sinn Féin from attending the meeting. It is possible that this may have been […]
Benjamin Netanyahu is horrified
Why do countries like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, North Korea and China hate the West so much? Well, they have many reasons, I’m sure, but one that is particularly obvious is the hypocrisy – at times breath-taking – of the West. A current example. Inspectors from the UN’s nuclear agency have found traces of radioactive […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT HARRY’S GAME, SAD SOL, LAST YEAR, THIS YEAR AND OUR PLAN TO TURN DOWN OUR OBEs
Did you watch that Prince Harry interview last night? Is he a persecuted soul or a guy out to make some (more) money and put the boot into a few people at the same time? The former footballer Sol Campbell is really annoyed – he hasn’t been offered an OBE while others – less worthy […]
THE NORTH, FINE GAEL, FIANNA FAIL AND PHYSICAL FORCE FROM THE 1950s ON – by Donal Kennedy I write from memory . I think it was 1952 when Liam Kelly, who had been thrown out of the IRA, gave […]
The spare heir spills all
What would the great British public do without the Royal soap opera? These days, it’s producing explosions and flashes of light worthy of any New Year fireworks display. If you said ‘It’s all about the money’, you’d be half right. Has there ever been a book that has received such widespread and detailed publicity prior […]
DOING WHAT’S EXPECTED FOR NO GOOD REASON – by Donal Kennedy
Ordinary people are not expected to voluntarily bear heavy burdens until their deaths. It is amazing that monarchs and Bishops of Rome are so expected. That only one Pope retired from office in the past 600 years is amazing. That his successor has felt it incumbent upon himself to stay in office, despite failing […]
Rishi’s big idea
Even before his Famous Five goals – the economy, inflation, national debt, NHS waiting lists and small boats – Rishi Sunak announced another goal In his first major speech since being made prime minister. “In a world where data is everywhere and statistics underpin every job, letting our children out into that world without those […]