I worry about Ireland and this damned EU.
I had a chat earlier with a pal who’d have been reared on the “other side” of the Northern Ireland political divide from myself. Discussing the likely reaction of the Continue Reading
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Carnage in Manchester, it must be our last
1977, aged 7, I experienced my first ‘bomb’ in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Us kids had our hospital beds wheeled into the corridor as our room windows came through, Continue Reading
UK media are fearmongering over Northern Ireland as part of their anti-Brexit stance
Let me explain something about Northern Ireland, which is being totally overlooked in all the fear-mongering being pushed by UK mainstream media at present. There will be no United Ireland Continue Reading
Hungarian woman becomes latest victim of mass rape by migrants in Germany
Since UK mainstream media no longer report on these stories, I thought this one might be useful to mention. The gang rapes are continuing, it just seems nobody wants to Continue Reading
UK mainstream media blame Brexit for Lloyds job losses, but did they lie?
I’ve often complained online that UK mainstream media has been spinning stories and been less than truthful with the UK public, particularly when it comes to the subject of Brexit. Continue Reading
The IndyRef2 debate is an irrelevance, nobody will call one in the wake of Brexit result
The threat of a second Scottish Independence Referendum (IndyRef2), coming about as a result of the Brexit vote in the UK-wide EU Membership Referendum, is fallacy. It’s spin. It’s deceitful. Continue Reading
The infamous Edwina Currie reminds us of the lack of debate over UK Sovereignty in upcoming EU Referendum
Edwina Currie, famous for many things but formerly a Conservative MP until she lost her seat in 1997, sparked Twitter outrage today with a completely off-the-cuff remark about sovereignty. Many Continue Reading
Libya, soon to be known as “the rod that broke the back of the European Union”.
Let me lay out my concerns over the upcoming crisis in Libya, one which will break the EU into pieces, if not accepted and addressed immediately. This is simple. The Continue Reading
Afternoon Tea or Wiff Waff? The dilemma of an OCD Working Class Tory
I have a dilemma. Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson have made it so. My OCD behaviour, I have noticed, is on the increase and I can often dwell upon the Continue Reading
Many refugees “basically illiterate” and will cause integration problems in Germany, warns Hamburg University President
Often it is argued that many professionals are included amongst Syrian refugees, but Professor Dieter Lenzen, Hamburg University President and Chairman of “Aktionsrats Bildung” (Action Council for Education) has warned Continue Reading
Two jihadist refugees arrested in Austria had confirmed links to Paris Attackers
On 10th December, 2015 Austrian police arrested two refugees in a camp in Salzburg, as suspected ‘jihadists’. The two men, a 28-yo Algerian and a 34-yo Pakistani, arrived in Salzburg Continue Reading
Far right make huge election gains in central Germany, including global financial centre Frankfurt
The far right, anti-immigration, Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained huge numbers of votes off the established political parties in elections in central Germany on Sunday. What was even more shocking Continue Reading