Bloody Sunday Inquiry

For decent, humanitarian, human-rights aware British people, this week has been both extremely affirming and incredibly painful. The affirmation is hard to express adequately, but it comes from the transcendent sense that we did the right thing this week. The...

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...

Prince Harry and those comments

I’ve been thinking about the comments HRH Prince Henry of Wales reportedly made three years ago whilst an officer cadet.  Whilst it is not true that this issue is unimportant, as the anti-PC crowd suggests, the importance of the comments in the context of their...