When is the Left going to stop glamorising murderers?
Can the IRA be compared to the ANC? On Twitter yesterday Liberal Conspiracy’s Sunny Hundal announced that “people from Sinn Fein want to write articles for Libcon. Interesting times. I can see that...
View ArticleThe people of Northern Ireland know the dark truth about Martin McGuinness
A smiling Martin McGuinness joined the line-up of Irish presidential candidates on Wednesday, positioned right next to Dana, the former Eurovision song contest winner. In his bid for the presidency, he...
View ArticleAmerican Way: Whiff of scandal now taints Barack Obama
Rick Perry’s brain freeze and Herman Cain’s alleged penchant for blondes have fixated the American media in recent days. Liberals, sensing there might yet be hope for President Barack Obama, are...
View ArticlePat Finucane was shockingly murdered, but that doesn’t make him a human...
The Prime Minister was right today to apologise unconditionally for the appalling involvement of some agents of the British state in the gruesome murder of Pat Finucane. But let’s bust the myth that...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland is devolved: let local politicians clean it up
I keep reading or hearing hand-wringers saying that the Prime Minister must do something about the violence in Northern Ireland. "Look how he took control when there were London riots", they say. "What...
View ArticleGerry Adams: he hasn’t gone away, you know
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the stellar career of Gerry Adams, here are a few updates. He has celebrated his thirty years as president of Sinn Fein by announcing the glad news that...
View ArticleDolours Price is a lesson in the ugly futility of Irish republican terrorism
Dolours Price, one of the 1973 Old Bailey bombers, died yesterday in Dublin after years of poor mental and physical health. Her sister, Marian, is in jail in Northern Ireland, alleged by her family to...
View ArticleGerry Adams returns to the nursery
I guess it’s good news that Gerry Adams appears to be regressing to childhood: presumably it must damage Sinn Fein if he becomes a laughing-stock in the Republic of Ireland. He took to Twitter recently...
View ArticleThe Good Friday Agreement was better than we feared
Gerry Adams moans in The Guardian about how Margaret Thatcher’s policies on Northern Ireland "entrenched sectarian divisions, handed draconian military powers powers over to the securocrats, and...
View ArticleThe pot Adams and the kettle Thatcher
Among Gerry Adams’s denunciations of Margaret Thatcher last week was of "her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies [which] prolonged the war and caused great suffering". I won’t linger on the...
View ArticleUlster's dead deserve justice, whether they were killed by the British Army...
The Guardian is beyond parody this morning. Who would its worst enemies expect it to ask to write a comment piece on a Panorama programme suggesting that some members of a clandestine British Army unit...
View ArticleGerry Adams arrested: the grim stories of the Troubles are still coming out
It is very tempting to try once again to explain, to those seeking to discredit Nigel Farage, that the more that the inbred inhabitants of the Westminster tribe and its supporters in the media abuse...
View ArticleJean McConville and the IRA: let's hope her daughter's courage is contagious
There’s physical courage and there’s moral courage – and Jean McConville’s children need both if there’s to be justice for their mother at long last. Her son Michael showed moral courage on the Today...
View ArticleDoes Sinn Fein really want Scottish independence?
Sinn Fein and the Scottish National Party wish to banish British influence from their respective countries. Making comparisons between them is likely to annoy many SNP supporters. After all, nobody in,...
View ArticleAn American oral history project makes us fear for our lives, say former IRA...
If you want to know whether fear of IRA reprisals remains a powerful force in Northern Ireland, look no further. A former IRA prisoner, Richard O’Rawe, along with three others, is suing Boston College...
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