March, 2025

     Through travel and learning about different cultures one learns to appreciate the freedoms and prosperity we experience in most of the West. Relative to the poverty I’ve seen in places such as Bolivia or Cambodia, I count myself lucky to have grown up in the occupied six counties for all its faults. One […]

  So how should Micheál Martin conduct himself on his Fight – oops, I mean White House visit? Will his customary slippiness be enough? Eleven-year-old Caitlin-Rose McMullan was getting of a bus, perhaps the school bus, at four o’clock one day this week. A vehicle hit her and killed her. Must we accept terrible events […]

‘Northerners are a hard-headed lot’  – that’s the sort of lazy thinking that abounds in the south about the north. Interestingly, recent polling suggests just the opposite. It’s the southerners who are up for driving a hard bargain. At least, according to the North and South research project  which has been polling opinions – yep […]

There’s a public air of anxiety throughout the world today. Talk to anyone – even if you don’t talk to them, they’ll still tell you – we’re in a ‘dangerous world’. Trump even accused Zelenskii of pushing us all into World War III.  There’s a belief among many that global conflict is inevitable. So is […]

Putin to demilitarise while Europe rearms? President Trump, as part of his public commitment to reduce American overall spending costs as part of his Make America Great Again agenda, is proposing a fifty percent reduction in the overall expenditure on the American “defence budget” ; he hopes to see this reciprocated by both Russia and […]

I once shook hands with Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada. Not Justin Trudeau, who is the present prime minister, but his father Pierre, who was also Canadian PM decades back. I was teaching in a school in Winnipeg, and as part of his campaign for election,  Pierre Trudeau visited that school. I could see […]

By Randall Stephen Hall.     You don’t have to be big To be a hero. You just need compassion. To see that love’s a round zero. By rounding the circle And reaching for peace. To fight the blue demons And bring down the beast.   You don’t have to be loud You just need […]

Since our last podcast, a lot has happened. For example, Ukrainian leader Zelenskii got mugged good and proper in the White House. Was it a set-up? Did Zelenskii take the bait? And is this just a West Wing dust-up from the disgusting Trump or the beginning of a global reset? In other words, will Europe […]

. MAGA and indeed Trump and his cronies have become known the world over, in the past couple of weeks,  as a band of conspiracy theory nitwits who will literally believe anything Trump tells them if it in any way adds to the Make America Great Again saga,   From declaring that only the President […]

  Trump and JD Vance used many disparaging and derogatory words and phrases during their media briefing with dictator Zelensky in Washington. Some words they did not use include “sit” presumably Zelensky was already seated,”down boy, “roll over” and “fetch” but I think we and especially Zelensky and his European backing choir got the picture. […]