US and Israel have inflicted long-term damage on themselves in their war with Iran
Nobody is telling the truth. Why did the war on Iran start? Was it because Israel had decided to launch a go-it-alone air war, as Marco Rubio said? Was it because Pete Hegseth convinced Donald Trump to go to war? Was it because Binyamin Netanyahu persuaded the US president that an American-Israeli assault was risk-free and would topple the regime of the Ayatollahs? The only […]
Nato allies must not save Donald Trump from himself
Almost incredibly, Trump has asked China, the UK, France and other countries to deploy warships to the Persian gulf to ensure that international shipping – especially oil tankers – have safe passage through the Straits of Hormuz in the face of Iranian threats to blockade and mine such traffic. I say “almost”, because nothing is […]
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 […]