June, 2025

A lot of people tend to think Donald Trump is the top liar in the Western world. Yes, he lies a lot – as did Tony Blair, when he told parliament that Iraqi nukes were just 45 minutes from London. The amount of bloodshed that provoked is etched on Blair’s face: he is like a […]

Tomorrow in the Old Bailey,  the rap trio Kneecap will be charged with breaking the law. To be precise,  LIAM ÓG Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, will be tried for shouting at a concert “The only good Tory is a dead Tory” and “Kill your local MP”. Kneecap are a serious musical group, while at […]

Would it be reasonable to say the age of irony is dead? Israel during the past week attacked Iran. Why? Because Iran was nearing the stage where it could produce nuclear weapons. Meanwhile the world and his/her mother know that Israel has a very good stock of nuclear weapons.    Meanwhile, back in the US […]

      When exactly was Ireland ‘great’? An raibh sí mór le rá nuair a bhí muid faoi chois? Was it during the centuries of colonisation when England raped our land? Was it during the Famine, An Gorta Mor, when our people starved and fled by the million to foreign lands, where they built […]

Counter-intuitively, it really can be dispiriting to hear sympathetic words for the people of Gaza. Yes, I know, I know – nearly everybody now has compassion for the crushing of so many Palestinian lives.  But there are some who are depressingly late to the scene. The Irish bishops have been calling for peace for quite […]

  With Song, EXPRESS TO NOWHERE.Recorded circa 1982. RSH. MUDSI MUNTU. Moodzi Moon Two.Express to Nowhere. Early 1980s.Listen to Express to Nowhere by Mudsi Muntu on #SoundCloudhttps://soundcloud.com/julian-fowler-524759062/express-to-nowhere?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&si=53ab41d442cf40b8b297e8c34df69466&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing From 1980 to 1983 or so we got together every Sunday afternoon at the Fowler household in North Belfast, to smoke cigarettes, drink hot sweet coffee, jam musically, and […]

EXCEPT you’ve been living in a hole in ground, you’ll know that Ballymena, Larne, Portadown and other place in NEI have seen several nights of intense violence. Why was that? Was it fear of immigrants, hatred of immigrants, good crack having a go at the peelers – or a mixture of all these elements. We […]

  The Road to Larne Leisure Centre.By Randall Stephen Hall.Plus “Invisible  Coat” A song.About bullying. See link below . . . Jesus! Did you see thon eventsat Larne Leisure Centre? A group of wee boys with early dementia?  Well you can’t spell “love”, but you certainly know how to break glass and burn stuff.Can you get […]

Last Saturday night a young girl from Ballymena was allegedly raped in Clonavon Terrace in Ballymena. I say “allegedly” as the two young men arrested for the crime haven’t been convicted yet but I think we all know what the outcome will be. A protest highlighting the alleged rape was arranged for Monday night past […]

Greta Thunberg and an MEP claim that they’ve been kidnapped – their ship with a meagre quantity of provisions for Palestine was stopped and is on its way to Israel. Can Israel do what it likes? And are we all helpless? In the US,  President Trump has sent in the National Guard, even the California’s […]