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 [...]

You Are Going Nowhere, Sonny Jim. Stitch That!
Did you read in the crappy English newspapers about how the atheist communist leader of Manchester United, Sir Alex-Fergulson, has been making the disparaging remarks about Real Madrid, accusing it of moral bankruptcy because of its success during the glorious Franco period, a time when, he seems to [...]

You can almost smell the sense of anticipation!
The big news in Spain this week was that a butcher in Pontevedra name Marcelino is winning a million and a half euro in the Primitiva lottery, thereby doubling the gross regional income of Galicia in one stroke. As you can see in the video I have [...]

What a good news week for Fianna Fail was last week. It wasn’t just the latest Irish Times poll even if it’s only a honeymoon result. There was also that report– the ESRI’s Medium -Term Review: a little rough patch and then clear skies and calm waters for . . . well until 2025 minimum. [...]

Some films benefit from a second viewing; for my own part, among those that I didn’t ‘get’ first time round are classics such as Repulsion, Vertigo and Heaven’s Gate, films that I now view as undeniably great. But when I got wind, a couple of years back, of Michael Haneke’s intention to remake his horror [...]

That ol’ red herring - Labour’s links with trade unions - is raising its head again. Kevin Rafter suggests the Party’s 21st Century Commission (an internal review body) should:
‘ . . . look at Labour’s relationship with the trade union movement.’
Mr. Rafter likens this relationship to that which the State used to have with religious [...]

The latest travesty from the Zapatero circus which we laughingly call the government is the news that the pregnant minister for defence, who is a woman (but not a lady), has imposed strict censorship on staff which prevent them from surfing the Internet while they are at work in order to look for the football [...]

Shane Coleman doesn’t believe. CORI recently published its exhaustive Socio-Economic Review 2008 - a 240 page report detailing all aspects of poverty in Ireland. Contained therein was the startling fact that there are over 720,000 poor people living amongst us. Not only that, there are now more poor people today than there were at [...]

Once again, the socialist prime minister of Spain, the moron Zapatero, has made a laughing stock of our country by including seven middle-aged women in his cabinet, making it the first mostly female cabinet in Spanish history. El Generalisimo must be spinning in his grave like a strombola. Is this what we fought the Civil [...]

You probly have not have noticed, but in the United States of America at the moment there is a dramatic historical event taking place that will change forever the face of politics. In the race for the presidency, both of the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination are from a minority. If either Hillary Clinton [...]