The Scottish Parliament’s New Pro-Independence Majority
The largest number of votes submitted in an election for the Scottish parliament and the largest tally of support recordedContinue Reading
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Eoghan Harris Axed By Sunday Independent Over Fake Twitter Account
Yesterday’s late breaking news that the controversial right-wing newspaper columnist and so-called “revisionist” author Eoghan Harris has been sacked byContinue Reading
Scottish Parliament Election 2021. An Unpredictable Vote
Later today the people of Scotland will be heading to the polls in what could be the biggest test forContinue Reading
The Rebel Matters Podcast
Apologies to all for my prolonged absence. I’m absolutely maxed out in my day job, plus I now find myselfContinue Reading
The Truth About China’s Uyghur Genocide
The YouTube politics’ channel Bad Empanada has published a video examining some of the evidence supporting the charge that theContinue Reading
Arlene Foster, Unionists And Forcibly Leaving A United Ireland
When Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and joint First Minister of Northern Ireland, told a BBCContinue Reading
DUP Cynically Exploits UDA Gang Violence In Derry And Belfast
During some of the most difficult days of the nascent Irish-British peace process the late bomb-maker turned peace-maker David Ervine,Continue Reading
Alex Salmond’s Alba Party
It’s over a week since I suggested that “…none of us can predict what the suddenly unpredictable Alex Salmond mightContinue Reading
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Versus William F. Buckley Jr
I thought some of my fellow political anoraks might be interested in this appearance by a young Bernadette Devlin McAliskeyContinue Reading
Report Finds That SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon “Misled” Scottish Parliamentary Committee
What a bizarre situation we’ve reached in the politics of Scotland when we have elements of the Greater England pressContinue Reading
Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon And SNP Polling: Not All Bad News
Despite all the travails of Brexit and Covid-19, just a few short weeks ago the political future of the ScottishContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar Equates Being A Protestant With Being British In Ireland
Given the patently racist accusations made against him by right-wing British journalists and publications over the years, with allegations ofContinue Reading
The DUP’s Homegrown Proud Boys: UDA, UVF, RHC
As I wrote a few weeks ago, during the decades of the so-called Troubles while unionist terrorists may have pulledContinue Reading
The SNP’s Civil War Between Alex Salmond And Nicola Sturgeon
Most independence movements have the good sense to achieve independence before starting the civil war. Not so the Scottish NationalContinue Reading
History, And The Peace Process, Has Proven Roy Greenslade Right About The Troubles
The current furore in the London press over an article by the veteran British journalist and newspaper editor Roy GreensladeContinue Reading
The DUP And Those Dubious Claims Of Irish Sea Border Violence
Threats? What threats? That is the question on a lot of minds as scepticism continues to grow about recent claimsContinue Reading
Krystal Kyle And Friends With Historian And Author Thomas Frank
Krystal Ball of the YouTube show Rising and Kyle Kulinski of the popular channel Secular Talk, have launched a newContinue Reading
New York City Rich And Poor – The Inequality Crisis
Here is another excellent documentary on YouTube from the German public service broadcaster DW examining the dreadful inequality between theContinue Reading
YouTuber Dave Cullen Discovers That Computing Is Not Forever
As regular readers know, I’m no great fan of banning online commentary, even the most egregious. On most topics IContinue Reading
The Katie Halper Show
Over the last year I’ve become a regular watcher of the Katie Halper Show, presented by the eponymous US comedian,Continue Reading
Irish Media Learns All The Wrong Lessons From Storming Of US Capitol
Though you’ll rarely see it discussed in the popular press, one of the more troubling aspects of Donald J Trump’sContinue Reading
Britain Leaves The EU. Then Complains Why It Is Treated Differently By The EU!
Having hectored, cajoled and bullied its way through the uncivil negotiations around Brexit (“British exit”) and Trexit (“Transition exit”) itContinue Reading
