I managed to miss this the other day, but anyway… While 2007 has begun for most of us with a shrug of the shoulders to the passage of time, the French are not a people to accept these things lying down, hence new years eve demonstrations in the French city of Nantes, protesting with slogans [...]
You just can’t make this up. Michael “Looney Loyalist” Stone, he of the recent “I am here to kill Gerry Adams” visit to Stormont, has said (via his solicitor) that his sojourn to the hill equipped with nothing but his wit (and an axe, a garrot, some guns and a handful of nailbombs) was not [...]
There’s quite a good posting on slugger o’toole today, in relation to the activities (or lack thereof) of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Council’s two-day conference, Building a Human Rights Culture in Northern Ireland, starts today. The NIHRC says its role is “to ensure that the human rights [...]
Lucozade Bombers Defeated For Now So they tried to bomb us again. Even worse – they are us! Have no fear though. Days before we decided to try to bomb us again UK Home Secretary, John “Resin” Reid announced the Government’s latest cunning plan to thwart those who wish to curtail our freedoms. The Government [...]
Although not being reported in the mainstream media yet, it seems that the ill conceived ID Card and Database plans for the UK have been scrapped. Not a moment too soon, although many people may not have had to get them anyway, such as Irish people living in the UK.
It all started when an unemployed British sysadmin decided he wanted to get to the bottom of the whole UFO phenomenon, and find out whether strange craft sighted over UK skies for many years were in reality experimental military aircraft belonging to the United States military. Gary McKinnon would get smoked up, fire up a [...]
The Campaign to Make Votes Count in the uk trundles on, and while some in the labour government still insist there is no need to change a system where around 30% of the vote means over 50% representation in parliament some within the party are starting to realise that the system that punished them in [...]
Ken Loach’s new film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, has had the British press up in arms, with one paper declaring that it is “designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud.” In fact the critics had their condemnation in print before any of them had seen it! George Monbiot has [...]
In 1996 the British Labour party announced in it’s election manifesto that it would hold a “Royal Commission of Inquiry” into Vivisection. As a result many animal rights groups backed Labour in the 1997 election. Labour never initiated the Royal Commission, which outraged many, and today Tony Blair has come out and said that he [...]
Slugger O’Toole is reporting on the Irish Government’s plans to remove 2,300 archaic laws from the Statue Book. So, no more dropping suspected theives in deep water attached to millstones, or charging Frenchmen discriminatory taxes.