I don’t know much about Scotland. We were always assured they are our lost Celtic cousins in a way that the English are not. It’s fair to say though that…
Author: Dot
Don’t be a maverick – go out and watch the movie
You can hardly get out of bed without being assailed by publicity for the new Tom cruise movie. A sequel to the ‘cult classic, top gun’ and one reviewer wrote…
Starmer abandoning the Palestinians to placate the rabid right
Back in the day there was never a dull moment in Irish politics. A broken economy, a low level civil war on our border, mass emigration and unemployment and endemic…
The Republic
They buried ‘Big Jack’ today. Back when he was a player in my schooldays he was never referred to as either Jack or Big Jack. Though I needed no reminding…
No route back for the evangelicals
‘The arc of history is long - but it bends towards justice’. Some of the words of the great Martin Luther king in his classic ‘letter from Birmingham jail’. One…
Big Jack
The grim reaper came for another of England’s famous 1966 World Cup winning side On Friday as Jack Charlton bowed out at the age of 85. In Ireland the focus…
Lady Ghislaine
So the fibbers have at long last caught up with the Lady Ghislaine. And there she was just like Osama Bin Laden was in Abbotobad Pakistan hiding in full view…
The three ugly sisters
The Italians have an old political saying which sez roughly ‘ if you’re not at the table your probably on the menu’. That this pearl of wisdom is not lost…
A gulf between the best and the rest
The gulf between the best and the rest was given another airing as man. city played Newcastle in the f.a cup. Adopting a defensive strategy was always the play for…
Juneteenth
Southern trees have a strange fruit Blood at the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies twistin in the summer breeze Strange fruit hangin from the poplar trees. The…