Terrorism returns to Northern Ireland

Nábídána is shocked and disgusted to hear of the appalling terrorist attack on an army barracks in Co. Antrim.  Our thoughts are with the families of those murdered and injured, and we sit tonight in cold apprehension at the effect this will now have on the streets of...

Jeff Peel, Reg Empey and A Clockwork Orange pt 1

Burgess wrote in introduction to the 1986 edition of his gruesome masterpiece, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is “a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and...

University Challenged

The disqualification of the Corpus Christi College team, after they had won the 2009 University Challenge competition, rather beggars belief and sits uneasily with common sense. One competitor has been ruled bot to be a student at the end of the series, but had begun...

Twittering the light fantastic

There’s clearly a lot of traffic being generated here by the commentary on other sites; as a result, my SEO implementation is going to be upgraded over the next two days; the site will be slow but extremely exciting. I’ll be twittering all the while, of...