Book Review: ‘Bent Coppers’ by Graeme McLagan
ISBN: 978-0-7528-5902-6 Publication date 2003. I purchased this book by Graeme McLagan a former BBC investigative journalist from a charity bookstall in…
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Quote of the Day – Leo Kearse on the migrant related troubles in Northern Ireland
When I saw that it had all kicked of in Ulster/Northern Ireland over the arrest of two Roma teenagers originally from Romania for sexual…
What will happen to the ‘extra’ money for the NHS?
The Chancellor or the Exchequer Rachel Reeves in her annual Spending Review has decided to throw some more gold leaf on the already heavily…
From Elsewhere: Halal and Kosher are NOT the same
One of the interesting things about the current debate about animal slaughter is that people are conflating Halal with Kosher. The thing is, as…
Pride has died.
Back in the 1990’s and very early 2000’s I used to enjoy going to the big Pride festival in London. Prides back then were…
I told you this would happen – Ulster edition
(NB: Links and references follow this article) When I was a photojournalist I saw and was in the middle of serious public disorder and…
Housekeeping notice about links
Some of the pieces that I write can sometimes have an enormous number of links to sources. This is because I was conditioned over…
On the sixth day of the sixth month we shall remember them.
Eighty one years today thousands upon thousands of brave young men landed on the beaches of Normandy in order to fight back against a…
We in Britain are not hating the NHS nearly enough
Having had family members who have had appalling and sometimes lethal experiences with Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) and personal experiences with the NHS…
The BBC hits the bottom of the barrel and keeps on falling.
I’m old enough to remember when the BBC was good. I remember when you could trust the BBC’s News and Current Affairs output to…
