A Clear Majority Favours The Reunification Of Ireland
The British apologists of the Irish news media, led by a coterie of decrepit newspaper columnists, have claimed for decades that, “…no one wants aContinue Reading
Month: July 2016
The Clinton Machine Rolls Over The Opposition At The Democratic National Convention
With Hillary Rodham Clinton anointed as the Democratic Party candidate for president all’s over bar the shouting at the organisation’s 2016 nationalContinue Reading
Could Donald Trump Defy The Polls And Do An Electoral Brexit?
Michael Moore, the left-wing American documentary-maker, has been saying it since last year, though it’s only in recent months that peopleContinue Reading
The Norwegian Dialects Versus Anglo-American English
British-based journalist, Jessica Furseth, who was raised in Norway, has written an article on the increasing and disruptive presence of theContinue Reading
The Young Turks Versus Alex Jones
Right-wing propagandist and conspiracy theorist par excellence, Alex Jones, crashed a live broadcast of the left-leaning Young Turks during theContinue Reading
An Sionnach Fionn On Twitter And Facebook
Just a quick reminder that if you prefer more tongue-in-cheek stuff An Sionnach Fionn is also on Twitter, @AnSionnachFionn, where offence is neverContinue Reading
The Digital Tech Of The Islamic State And Others
Bellingcat has an interesting article by Jett Goldsmith summarising some of the online techniques used by adherents of violent political Islam toContinue Reading
To Reunite Or Not Reunite, That Is The Question. For Ireland’s Worried Elites
Is it just me, or is the Continuity State going through a period of existential crisis?
Heil Kaiser Drumpf!
There’s not much one can say about the elevation of Donald J. Trump to the position of sun-king-in-waiting by the Republican PartyContinue Reading
The SDLP And Colum Eastwood: Make Me Green, But Not Just Yet
So is it Colum Eastwood, the SDLP leader, or the members of the press who are sending mixed messages on the regional party’sContinue Reading
Comic Book Girl 19 Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts
Unfortunately I’ve had no time to see the new Ghostbusters film, though the mass coverage in the media makes meContinue Reading
Kenny And Martin Wrap The Green Flag Around A Finger Or Two
The post-referendum effects of the Brexit vote in the UK continue to ripple out across the European Union, lapping up onContinue Reading
British Spies And Irish Oligarchs
While Europe burns, Ireland stinks. At least that is the impression one gets from recent revelations by the more principled members of the mainstreamContinue Reading
Erdoğan To Emerge From Turkey’s Failed Military Coup Stronger Than Ever
The apocryphal Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times“, springs to mind when reviewing the turbulent events of theContinue Reading
New Information Video By The Irish National Caucus Sparks Unionist Anger
I’m somewhat lukewarm on the Irish National Caucus (INC), the Irish-American human rights organisation which has campaigned on equality and justice issues forContinue Reading
The Eleventh Night, The Twelfth Of July And Britain’s Colony In The European Union
As is now the norm, on the night of July 11th a significant part of the unionist – or pro-British – minority in IrelandContinue Reading
But What’s Your Name In English?
Thomas Sutherland writing on the South African digital current affairs platform, News24: “Last night, a friend and I walked into a bar in PortContinue Reading
DUP Favours British Beer-Swilling Thugs Before Irish Special Needs Children
In April of this year, Arlene Foster, the belligerent leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the majority pro-UK partner in theContinue Reading
How Brexit Paid For My Pentax!
The Pentax K-S2 DSLR camera was released by the Japanese manufacturer, Ricoh, at the start of 2015 and since then myContinue Reading
Ireland, The Long War And The Iraq Inquiry By Sir John Chilcot
If the long-delayed findings of Britain’s Iraq Inquiry, led from 2009 to 2011 by senior civil servant Sir John Chilcot, have driven a stake through the political legacy ofContinue Reading
Brexit, The Disconnect Between London And Greater England
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
Michael Gove And Brexit’s True Origins, From Anti-Peace To Anti-European?
In the year 2000, responding to the all-party intergovernmental Belfast Agreement of 1998, the peace deal which effectively ended three decades of conflictContinue Reading
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