A Congolese immigrant dies on a street in Dublin, so Ireland is called ‘racist’
Some words should be sanctioned as racist within the many liberal discourses on the Black and Traveller contributions to multiculturalism.
Yes, Britain today is governed by idiots, but that is not the sole reason it is in trouble
Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state?
Is this the end of the UK? Very possibly
Perhaps the most exquisitely stupid alliance since the formation of the United Arab Republic of Syria, Egypt and Gaza in 1959 was announced last weekend.
Absurd Greens must steal from the manifestos of other parties
Why do Green political parties still exist?
‘Human rights lawyers’: Leave them naked in a frozen prison cell
If Lord Richard Hermer were well-known in any other European country, it would probably be as a traitor, and he would now be manacled to the wall in an ice-cold dungeon awaiting…
Starmer is sinking, borrow the Bismarck!
The British Prime Minister awoke before dawn, this morning, April 21, 2026, sensing a strange presence nearby. He turned on the bedside light. No, nothing there.
The piffle from von der Leyen: ‘The Union grows stronger’
Last weekend, on nearly opposite sides of the EU, two states revealed how the cumbrous juggernaut of the union is not working. No, sorry, cannot be made to work.
Deep State reaches corners that terror doesn’t even know exist
On the one hand, we’ve all been wondering whether there’s a single explanation for the madness of the modern world.
What? EU’s Ireland supplying Russian military with lethal weapons alumina
So now we know the truth. A Russian-owned smelter on Ireland’s west coast has continued to supply alumina to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. What? How? Mmm;
Mueller: A patriot who was sucked into the corrupting maw of Washington
The obituary for the US attorney Robert Mueller, who died recently, read: “He had two daughters, Reuters and UPI.
A hostile strait is a nautical death trap: Trump gives us the Dardanelles, Part II
Addressing an audience of military veterans in Alexandria, Virginia, last week, US Navy Admiral William Raven, formerly head of the elite Seals special forces unit, spoke…
Pacifists, then and now: ‘Uncle Sam in a terrible jam, way down yonder in Vietnam’
Unintended consequence: That is invariably the great pitfall of any government policy, but there is an even greater horror in human affairs, that of the intended consequence,…
Behead the Iranian monster, but which head will grow in its place?
The root of debacle ultimately comes from the Latin, baculus, stick, and it derives from the act of removing a stick from a dam, with the debacle being what follows.
In Ireland now, Catholics will be insulted for showing their faith
Within a Europe that is abandoning its traditional values as decisively as an iceberg in the Caribbean, no country seems to be changing as irreversibly as Ireland.
All the doomed UK has left is a cackling demented “That’s all, folks!”
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, is an interesting (if only sort-of) example of what happens when life follows art.
Mandelson’s serpentine charm bewitched halfwit Starmer
The small picture is of an ailing British government heading for existential meltdown.
Blair to Starmer, the UK’s serial decay led by despicable PMs
The Chinese certainly know how to turn the screw.
Europe forgets real genocide and cuts loose from all historical knowledge
“Performative” surely is the political cliché of our times. Yet nonetheless it is the only word that describes the vapid behaviour of so many western societies.
Western freedom is heading for the crocodile’s pantry shelf
The ailing English novelist Julian Barnes recently announced that he has written his last book.
Fading, forgotten Europe has been dropped from the world order
Metaphors mislead. What is going on in the world in the first month of the second quarter of the 21st century is unlike anything that has occurred before.
Orwell prize for journalists: For writers who loathe their own English culture
Reading about the Orwellian threat of sanctions likely to be imposed on the Swiss journalist Roger Köppel, the thought occurred to me that just about the only media outlet…
No safety in UK: Knife crime, gang rape by those with ‘protected characteristics’
Whenever the state prioritises “public safety”, it is probably not the safety of the public that is being protected so much as the value system of the politicians running…
‘Civilisational erasure’ and ‘transgressive decay’ indeed befalling Europe
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently declared that the rules-based alliance of normative values once binding the US and Europe had come to an end, posing unprecedented…
Israel: No other nation would remain so calm in the face of mass murder
Two digs, one hundred and fifty kilometres apart, tell a common story of singular purpose.
One machine gun available: Ireland left Zelensky unguarded on his visit to Dublin
Odd how headlines get chosen.
Merz can look West, look East, or look at the moon, Germany is hammered
It’s a worrying sign - perhaps one of irreversible senile decay – when one finds oneself admiring not merely a senior politician, but one who is chancellor of Germany.
What? I start with freedom for a Danish MP and end up with Chinese sex dolls
Freedom is never free. It is not free of cost, or of supervision, or of limits.
What Britain and Ireland do is mimic the US to delude themselves they are modern
“Black Friday Sale!” yodelled the advertisement, with equal measures of mercantilist ecstasy and calendral imprecision. “From November 20-November 30!
British defence: Fraudulent, weak and strikes terror into no one
Jonathan Carley, 64, is the latest addition to the UK’s impressive national armoury, doubtless intended to inspire terror amongst Putin’s myrmidons.
Memories of ex-Yugoslav civil war: Did millionaires bid to shoot civilians?
Kevin Myers remembers his time as a war correspondent in the civil wars of the former Yugoslavia and wonders if the story of criminals selling "war vacations" to rich clients…