by nabidana | Mar 10, 2010 | commerce and trade, Europe, politics, Racism
Next week begins European Week Against Racism, a week when organisations opposed to racism host events to highlight racial prejudice and discrimination, and to celebrate the existence of societies where discrimination on the colour of a person’s skin or their...
by nabidana | Nov 18, 2009 | Europe, Hoons, politics, stupidity
Gordon Brown, the king of wishful thinking, has just made the Queen read out some drivel in the House of Lords. Here’s the draft he sent up to Buckingham Palace before it was fixed up by an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters. “My Government,...
by nabidana | Oct 19, 2009 | Europe, Hoons
The draw in the Football World Cup playoffs between France and Ireland puts me in a difficult and unenviable position. I am faced with an incredible dilemma, trying to decide which team I would like to see lose more. My team, Northern Ireland, is out, and of course I...
by nabidana | Oct 3, 2009 | Europe
Note: regular readers of Slugger O’Toole will call this entire article whataboutery. It is. I’m predicting a possible future here, so don’t hate me if you don’t like the scenario I depict. Please don’t cry, and certainly don’t...
by nabidana | Oct 2, 2009 | Europe
I had a protracted Twitter conversation with @ijclark last evening about Micha? Kaminski, the leader of the new anti-federalist European Parliamentary group. The main bone of contention seems to be the allegation that Mr. Kaminski is an anti-semite and, by extension,...
by nabidana | Sep 18, 2009 | Europe, politics
I am no conspiracy theorist, as regular readers will be aware. I think planes flown by islamist terrorists brought down the twin towers, I don’t think US dollar bills are evidence of a freemason / Jewish plot to rule the world. But I do think the Irish...
