November, 2025

  When two young boys were shot dead by Israeli soldiers yesterday, the Israeli Zionist government issued a statement claiming that two young ‘suspects’ had been ‘eliminated.’ In other words, the two unarmed boys were summarily executed by the Israeli army and that was that. The two boys were ‘suspected’ Hamas members and therefore their […]

Sigmund Freud had a theory of projection. You may even recognise it: it’s about the tendency people have to see in others the very faults and weaknesses they themselves possess. Mote-in-your-brother’s-eye is the biblical version of it. Perhaps that explains why Donald Trump reacted as he did two days ago at a press conference in […]

. It’s cold out there. Lower temperatures. Biting wind. Grey sky. And yet, it seems, Belfast city centre is bunged with different groups parading at different times. Perhaps there are lessons to be learn by the commitment – and number – of such hardy souls. If you were hoping to be part of the Ulster-Scots […]

Do you know a man called Browne?  Maybe a man called Wallace Browne, then? OK – if I tell you he’s a former DUP politician and has gone to that blessed  place where all DUP politicians go when their political life is over – to wit, the House of Lords – so the full title […]

It had to happen sooner or later. President Trump sent National Guards into several  US cities, on the grounds that crime in them was out of hand.What he really had in mind, of course, was to frighten the bejasus out of (to use a popular phrase) the people living in these cities and people throughout […]

Did you know that Belfast has an offshore wind terminal? Me neither, but apparently it has. And this really really matters  because the off-shore wind terminal is going to be turned into a major construction hub for two massive offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea. The plan is to deliver enough clean energy to […]

What would happen, I wonder, if Michael Healy-Rae went to Europe? As an MEP? The comic possibilities would be endless – but would it change the bould Michael? Because rather than Irish MEPs changing anything in Brussels,the time  Irish MEPs spend there definitely has an impact on said MEPs. They may arrive in tweed jackets […]

I feel sorry for rich people. If you’ve more money than you need (not the same thing as more money than you want), that means you don’t need to go out to work. Yet there must be a nagging feeling that chasing your next million (or billion) is really just putting in the time. Whether […]

I’ve just received by email an electronic booklet from Declan Kearney of Sinn Féin. I’ve had quite a number of reports from Declan, but this is easily the most timely and important to date. It’s called Eire Nua. You can’t have missed that there are more speeches and books about a united Ireland around in […]