Donald Trump is mad, bad and dangerous. Only the midterms can save the US now
As soon as Operation Epic Fury began to move dials in Wall Street in the wrong direction, and the prospect of international inflation, stagnation, energy market mega-turbulence registered with the idiot king Donald J Trump, who is the shame of the US and Americans, the brakes were slammed on. The war that Pete Hegseth, self-styled US Secretary […]
If Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine, Trump is wrong to invade Iran
The death of Ayatollah Ali Khameini is hardly cause for international lamentation. Since June 1989, Khamenei had led a tyrannical Iranian theocracy which ruthlessly crushed any internal dissent with the gallows, flogging, imprisonment and on-street murder. The rights of women and men have been viciously curtailed by deploying sharia law on all. Apostasy, including religious […]
Curling and dead drummers leave me cold
Even without AI, the internet revolution has placed vast amounts of factual material in an almost instantly accessible form to huge swathes of humanity. Researching articles for publication in newspapers and periodicals has ceased to be as painstaking or time-consuming as it once was. While it is easier to write an article that is fact-checked and […]
An independent Irish State was never a foregone conclusion. Nor is a united Ireland now
The creation of an independent Irish state in 1922 has turned out to be a good thing for the great majority of Irish people. While you may read about Irexit (and a small minority believes in it), no group of any significance now believes or argues that Ireland should re-join the UK. And while Irish […]
Ireland has a lot of skin in the game of international politics
A strange aspect of British politics these days is the reaction of the Tory controlled media to the emergence of Nigel Farage and his Reform party. Since he is peddling hard right and populist positions and stances, the Tory right finds it difficult to withhold sneaking regarder respect for his dominant opinion poll position. Tory […]
Irish people fail to understand how fragile our electricity supply is
When we read about Putin’s onslaught on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure designed, apparently, to freeze the Ukrainians into submission in the context of Trump-sponsored peace talks, we can only imagine what it is like to live in a world of blackouts amid ambient temperatures of -15 or -20 degrees centigrade. Interestingly both Sinn Fein and our […]