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
Category: Current Affairs
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
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
Beyond The Pale. Irish-Speakers In Modern Ireland
How colonised are the Irish? Very colonised? Super colonised? Utterly-and-completely-fucked-up-beyond-all-hope-of-recovery colonised? One might be inclined to chose the latter givenContinue Reading
Happy 4th Of July To The Spook-Bots Of US Intelligence
A very happy Fourth of July to the automated-programs of the United States’ Armed Forces and intelligence community who haveContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Problem And England’s New Motto, Ourselves Alone
I’ve been travelling and working overseas for the last wee while which has left me with precious little time, energy orContinue Reading
Echoes Of The Irish Revolution In Brexit Britain And The Scottish Independence Debate
These thoughts strike me in relation to the current post-referendum turmoil in Britain, and Scotland in particular. Ireland’s failed Easter RisingContinue Reading
Following On From Brexit Is It Now Time For UnityRef?
There is more than a little irony for Scotland in the negative outcome of the United Kingdom’s plebiscite on its continued membership ofContinue Reading
Peter Robinson, the DUP And Britain’s Counter-Terrorists
While the debate continues in Britain over the motives of murderer Thomas Mair, the killer of Labour MP Jo Cox, hisContinue Reading
The Deep Insurgency, The Enduring Irish Rebel Tradition
Back in 2013, while examining the thorny issue of public support for the armed struggle of the (Provisional) Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Government Rejects Secular Irish-Medium School Despite Record Popularity
According to the all-party “20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030”, one of the most purposefully underfunded policies in theContinue Reading
Up Close And Personal With A Donald Trump Rally
Despite the latest polls showing a significant slump in the popularity of Donald Trump only a foolhardy forecaster would confidently claim that the celebrity politicianContinue Reading
The Killer Of Jo Cox, The Springbok Club And It’s Unionist Associations
Following on from the brutal death of the British Labour MP, Jo Cox, at a constituency meeting in West Yorkshire the UK and internationalContinue Reading
A Trumpite Speaks
Perhaps not the best choice of words by American ex-pat, Meghan McBride, writing in defence of Donald Trump and the UnitedContinue Reading
Trump Plays The Islamist Card As Britain Played The Orange Card
In the wake of the slaughter at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, an atrocity driven far more by one man’s self-hatredContinue Reading
How One Turbulent City In Iraq Can Stand For The Whole Country
With some sections of the Western news media proclaiming imminent victory over the Islamic State (an entirely nebulous concept given theContinue Reading
The Welsh Language Banned From The British Parliament
Yesterday’s sight of the former British prime ministers, toothsome Tony Blair and dour John Major, proclaiming the United Kingdom of Great Britain the “…mostContinue Reading
The Revival Of The Native Hawaiian Language
The US news and current affairs website, Slate, has a lengthy article on the modest revival of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, the nativeContinue Reading
UK Forces Conspired With British Terrorists In The Loughinisland Massacre
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
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