Kincora, Whitewashing The Secret History Of Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
With informed observers, including lawyers, journalists and politicians, already predicting a whitewash there seems little hope that Britain is ready to faceContinue Reading
Tag: Government of Britain
Stormont’s Fresh Start Repackages Stale Goods
So the governments of Ireland and Britain, in consultation with the members of the cross-party regional administration in Belfast, have announced the ratherContinue Reading
David Cameron Gives Showing The Pig A Whole New Meaning
The steep-streeted town of Drogheda has offered many fine contributions to Irish culture, though perhaps none more so than an English languageContinue Reading
American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasanceContinue Reading
The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn And The Self-Deluding British Press
Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing its teeth at the thoughts of left-wing MP, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Shoot-To-Kill, Britain’s Summary Executions And Assassinations In Ireland
Sometimes I do wonder if the dozens of Irish and British journalists who spent most of their careers loftily dismissingContinue Reading
Collusion Or The Secret History Of The British “Jihad” In Ireland
One might well regard it as forty years and several hundred deaths too late but RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster, seems to haveContinue Reading
Britain’s Army Of Serial Killers In Ireland
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
The Peculiar Nature Of British Democarcy
Following up on the unexpected results of the UK general election Adrian Kavanagh has examined the barely democratic nature of Britain’s first-past-the-postContinue Reading
The UK General Election 2015
My predictions for the general election in the UK (and the north-eastern bit of Ireland that the British stubbornly cling onContinue Reading
Polls Predict 2015 SNP Landslide In Scotland
I must admit that I remain quite sceptical about the anti-SNP hysteria convulsing significant chunks of the UK press as they continue toContinue Reading
The British Extreme Targets The Centre
Finally, someone in the UK press has recognised the shameful political scheming by the Tories (and Labour) which could giveContinue Reading
The BBC Challengers Election Debate 2015
Did Nicola Sturgeon, the formidable SNP leader and current First Minster of Scotland, emerge as the winner from last night’s televisedContinue Reading
The Rump British Colony In Ireland Goes Into Monty Python Mode
So the regional political parties in the north-east of Ireland, the last administrative rump of the British colony on this islandContinue Reading
David Cameron Versus Ed Miliband In Sky News Channel 4 Debate
For those who missed it, the big Sky News / Channel 4 television debate in Britain featuring the Conservative’s David CameronContinue Reading
30 Years On And Britain Maintains The Kincora Boys Home Cover-Up
In my last post highlighting the demands from campaigners in Ireland that the British authorities in the north-east of the countryContinue Reading
Nigel Dodds, Deputy PM Of Britain And Her Overseas Colonies
So Nigel Dodds, the Mr. Bland of Unionist politics in Ireland and the leader of the DUP’s motley crew of MPsContinue Reading
Kincora Boys Home, The Scandal Britain Can’t Bury
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading
The Monster Raving Loony Unionist Party
In the second decade of the 21st century the British people as a whole have little interest and even lessContinue Reading
Special Forces, Special Operations, Special Rules
In a similar vein to yesterday’s post on James Fallows’ controversial critique of the United States’ military in the Atlantic magazine comes this articleContinue Reading
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