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The editorial of today’s Belfast Telegraph, a British Unionist newspaper, issues a cri de coeur in defence of the British ForcesContinue Reading
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The editorial of today’s Belfast Telegraph, a British Unionist newspaper, issues a cri de coeur in defence of the British ForcesContinue Reading
From Aodh Ó Rathaille Hugh Reilly in the Scotsman newspaper: “In sooth, if a language fails to move with the timesContinue Reading
From “Driving A Wedge Within Gaeldom”, an article on the post-Medieval history of Ireland and Scotland featured in the magazineContinue Reading
From Der Spiegel: “Rain was falling on Frankfurt’s Ostend neighborhood as financial managers and local officials drove past dark cornerContinue Reading
The latest Panelbase poll from Wings Over Scotland, the headline figures say it all: Should Scotland Be An Independent Country? Continue Reading
The newspapers in Britain are currently debating the significance of images from the conflict in Afghanistan showing serving British soldiersContinue Reading
Over the last two years I have highlighted on this website a number of key facts from the mountain of evidenceContinue Reading
When political and media leaders in Germany complain about the suspicion and apprehension their country is now greeted with inContinue Reading
Inés del Rio Prada, a member of ETA (the Basque separatist organisation) and Spain’s longest serving political prisoner, has beenContinue Reading
Back in September the journal.ie, an online Irish news and current affairs website, held a poll asking its readers ifContinue Reading
Right-wing journalist and British nationalist writer Allan Massie has a misleading opinion piece in today’s Scotsman newspaper on the ScottishContinue Reading
Two Irish citizens, both petty criminals with some minor involvement in the drugs’ trade, separately “executed” in the Irish citiesContinue Reading
While some in the United States believe their nation is perched on the cusp of a very literal biblical apocalypseContinue Reading
The group-blog “It’s A Political World” has a very good post examining the suppression by the old Unionist regime atContinue Reading
This “flegger” thing seems to be positively contagious. From Wings Over Scotland news on the proposal by members of theContinue Reading
I suspect that I am not the only Republican made uneasy by a community plan in Ardoyne to hold aContinue Reading
Interesting article in the Irish Times on Monday examining attempts by the anti-separatist regional government in the Balearic Islands toContinue Reading
There may well be something anomalous about the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll but even with that caveat inContinue Reading
Tell a lie often enough and loud enough, and eventually it becomes the perceived truth. From RTÉ: “Minister of StateContinue Reading
In the 2011 census on the island of Britain large numbers of people living in Scotland, Wales and England rejectedContinue Reading
The political, intellectual and cultural powerhouse of British nationalism in Ireland: Willie Frazer and chums. Oh well, at leastContinue Reading
From the website “Welsh Not British” the 2011 census on the island of Britain summed up in one easy graph.Continue Reading