Jeremy Paxman once explained the secret of his interviewing technique - before speaking to a politician, he simply asks himself “why is this lying bastard lying to me?” In the case of Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, a journalist would be well advised to stiffen the measure: “Why is this blood-thirsty, amoral gangster lying to me?” […]

Si, is the former Atlético Madrid moron and now Scouse bastard Fernando Torres, who score the winning goal for Spain last weekend in the esciting final of the Eurovision Football Championships against the rubbish Germans to secure for Spain their first proper international football trophy since the days of el Generalísimo himself. Was a wonderful, […]

There’s a long and no doubt bitter election campaign still ahead before we can start talking about “President Obama”. But sober observers of the US political scene are confident enough to predict that the first African-American to get this close to the White House is going to win - and win big.
Immanuel Wallerstein argued recently […]

Everybody Want to Rule the World, says Jim Corr!
Everyone in Europe is in a blind shit-filled panic after the lovely fascist public of Ireland mistakenly voted NO by accident in the Eurovision Elections the other week, and now the hunt is on for the Scapegunts to take the blame for why they gave the wrong […]

With Exchequer finance spiraling out of control, what should the Left argue? Shore up capital spending? Cut current expenditure (i.e. public services, wages, social programmes)? Increase taxes? What should the Left’s prescriptions be? How can we show the public that we have a handle on these matters? What is the best way forward?
Difficult one. A […]

The European Commission’s Eurobarometer report is available (PDF)

Background to the Referendum
On June 12th, 2008, the Irish electorate was presented with the opportunity to vote “yes” or “no” to the Lisbon Treaty. This was the seventh referendum on European integration in Ireland in the last 36 years, so EU referendums are very much part […]

The British Police Respect Tradition!!
I am not in the habit of reading the rubbish Catalan newspapers with their improper language, but a story in a local newspaper in Lleida catch my eye because is typical of two things: (1) modern socialist Spain and (2) idiot Catalans.
The story (is English version here) recount how a 29-year-old […]

Enda Kenny Has a Hotline to Hitler!
The pious devout people of lovely pissing Ireland go to the poles today in order to pass their opinion on the Lisbon Treaty, an important document that will facilitate the efficient running of the European superstate: Making things run more efficient is usually a euphemism which mean to […]

Those of us who truly want the 21st century to be European do not have the luxury of hiding behind the referendum result and insisting that Europe stop. Nor should we allow ourselves to be led by right-wing parties as they set their own agenda to deal with the current fall-out. Most of all, we […]

The Israel-Iran phoney war took a dramatic turn last week when Transport minister Shaul Mofaz said that if Iran’s nuclear weapons programme continues, Israel will attack. Mofaz is one of three deputy Prime Ministers with pretensions to the current incumbent Ehud Olmert’s position. Though Israel attacked Saddam’s Iraq in 1981 in similar circumstances, the […]