Gordon Brown has hailed the abilities of his ‘friend’ Brian Cowen, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland. Brown, whose past benedictions have destroyed the British banking sector, the car industry and the value of Sterling, declared: “Nobody deserves greater credit for this than my friend Brian Cowen. He brought great patience, he brought huge tenacity, he [...]

Tuesday, 26 December 2009 4.15am Castle woken by intrusion alarm, as Lord Alderdice tries to ram-raid his way through the security cordon in a JCB.  Eventually talked down by David Forde, and was immediately tazered by angry PSNI officers.  Eventually claimed that Iain Dale had made him do it.

The title should presage a joke, but, to be honest, the impact of the idiot leaders of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom flying to Hillsborough today was nothing short of sickening, as each sought to use the situation in Northern Ireland to deflect attention from their mutually failing regimes each side of [...]

Gardaí say that it’s a miracle nobody was seriously hurt in the Son of God’s apparently politically motivated attack on a public information meeting last night. The vicious attack, in which tables were turned over and punches thrown, broke out after a member of the audience made jokes about the religious motivation of the Christian [...]

So in my previous post, I explained that some organisations were putting up really godawful posters for the Lisbon Treaty.  And I think most people agree that very many of them are pretty substantially awe-inspiring. I was awfully inspired on a few of them to pull them down and correct their grammar, possibly add a [...]

Brian Cowen, Ireland’s Prime Minister, has ‘not given up hope’ on finding a buyer for the beleaguered nation, as evidenced in photos on the website of the Roinn an Taoisigh.

“It’s very simple,” said the Taoiseach. “People must learn to live in painful anxiety in caves as if the outside world has become profoundly toxic, and must learn to enjoy it. Or they must die.”

Almost a year since the last ‘Who Governs’, here’s the comprehensive story of what’s happening in the world.

Brian Cowen, newly the Big Important Fellow From Offaly, has become Uachtarán Fhianna Fáil, and will, notwithstanding the possibility of the Greens and PDs going mental and bringing down the government, become an Taoiseach next month. This despite not having received the most ringing of endorsements from the Dear Leader of the Liberated Six Counties. [...]