Get off your ass and vote

Get off your ass and vote

America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. You’d need to be very brave if you’re prepared to wake up tomorrow with Donald Jackass Trump as the president elect of the United States. There is one proven way to prevent this from happening. Grab...

Ulster Unionists and Opposition

The decision of the Ulster Unionist Party to seek to withdraw from the piss-weak simulacrum of government in Northern Ireland is not an indication of a party having finally rediscovered its moral and political purpose – or if it is, it’s an indication of a...

Some thoughts on curried yoghurt

Gregory Campbell, MP and MLA for Londonderry East, enjoys courting controversy on dog-whistle issues in Northern Ireland. He’s good at it – he’s got a lot of wit and can be genuinely funny, but there is a bite and a bitterness to his politics which...

The mysterious case of too many fucking fadas

Sometimes, we get things wrong.  Sometimes, however, it’s not our fault.  As a result of the historical intransigence of the Irish people and their insistence on the creation of a 26 county partitionist statelet, the education system in the still loyally British...

Terrorists strike again in Northern Ireland

This posting is liable to be updated as more information comes in.  01.27am. Information is beginning to stream in of a car bomb attack on Palace Barracks, one of the largest British Army bases in Northern Ireland, and the NI headquarters of MI5.  Update: Confirmed by...