Corbyn gets a car and a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Jeremy Corbyn has gotten a Government Car Service car and a pay increase. Why people on my side of the house are going on about it is entirely beyond me. The leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition has...
View ArticleOakeshott and Ashcroft book recalled after emissions test fail
The latest book by Lord Ashcroft, former non-dom donor to the Conservative Party, has been recalled after serialization of the tome was found to exceed emissions standards for personally held gripes...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn wasn’t a threat to national security. He is now.
When Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead the Labour Party, Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) launched an impressive and apparently effective campaign to seize the initial narrative and establish...
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‘Mise (Saorstat) Éire’
United Ireland strategy, yesterday. Some quixotic souls in the republican movement must last night have been sitting, breath bated, in Arran sweater and Celtic jersey wearing clusters. They were...
View ArticleSafeguarding budding politicians.
The catastrophe of the death by suicide of a young conservative activist earlier this year has opened the Conservative Party to some disbelief and ridicule, particularly in the party’s handling of an...
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How an Irish election works
Live footage from the dissolution of An Oireachtas. Expect this type of paddywhackery. In the first of our unrivalled* coverage of the Irish General Election 2016, we cover the system. You don’t get...
View ArticleWas it for posters?
And so it begins. Lampposts across Ireland are today festooned (or infested, depending on your preference) with the smiling and not-so-smiling faces of our modern day gladiators, vying for a connection...
View ArticleGeoffrey Robertson QC – mendacious or just rushed?
Geoffrey Robertson today stated on television that the ruling on Julian Assange’s ‘detention’ was arrived at by five ‘distinguished judges’. In fact, the WGAD website indicates that none of the...
View ArticleFonts screwed
If you’re looking at this on a Mac, it looks like shit, and you paid far too much for your computer to be looking at something this fucked. If you’re looking at this on a PC, it’s not much better, but...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Mike Ashley
Mike Ashley, Owner, Newcastle United Football Club, St James’s Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne Dear Mike, In light of the disappointing performances of Newcastle United Football Club in the current season,...
View ArticleCorbynism: the gateway drug to McDonnellism
Jeremy Corbyn is startling sometimes. He has amassed such a bewildering (and bewildered) group of disparate supporters around him, and communicated his ideas so poorly, that it is deeply complex to...
View ArticleMy latest application for the position of England senior football manager
Manager Appointment Standing Committee The Football Association Wembley Stadium PO Box 1966 London SW1P 9EQ Dear Sir Greg and everyone at the FA, I write again to apply for the position recently...
View ArticleThis is thirty-six
If someone had asked me as an eighteen year-old what I would be like, a whole lifetime away, I would probably have said that I would be happy, amused and comfortable. I certainly thought I would be...
View ArticleApplication to replace Seumas Milne
Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition House of Commons Palace of Westminster, City of Westminster Dear Jeremy, If the rumours in the hated mainstream media are to be believed, you will soon...
View ArticleStill a Conservative
In the twenty years since I joined the Conservative Party (and I am only thirty-six now, so imagine how insufferable that was), I have only expressed outright disapprobation with the direction of the...
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Angry people in search of something about which to be angry
A recent Carphone Warehouse media campaign proclaiming itself ‘pro-choice’ has raised the ire of a large number of Irish social media commentators. The advert is below. There are a few things to say...
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Vote for Trump
There’s a lot wrong with America, or so it seems. Social Welfare and crime are out of control, race relations are strained, police are treated with suspicion, mostly because of their apparent...
View ArticleGet off your ass and vote
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. You’d need to be very fucking brave if you’re prepared to wake up tomorrow with Donald Jackass Trump as the president elect of the United...
View ArticleThe Ban Hammer
There were a number of inevitabilities about the decision by US President Donald Trump to restrict travel to and through the USA last week. First and foremost, it was inevitable that he would do it. He...
View ArticleTrading liberty for safety
Benjamin Franklin’s most serially abused quotation “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” (Reply to the Governor, 11 Nov...
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