When this site started in 2008, one of the issues that concerned this journalist was the apparent inability of the occupants of the sports desks in Scotland to grasp the concept of anti-Irish racism.
Month: July 2021
James Dornan MSP and a good day for the Irish in Scotland
When this blog started in the summer of 2008, the National did not exist.
Kevin McKenna and the media revolution
As I have already written, the decision by Celtic to invite fan media to a presser with the new manager and CEO has triggered some of the Stenography Corps.
Dave’s shares and a man of the cloth
When Mr David Cunningham King and his Concert party were victorious in the Off License Putsch of 2015, he brought in several organisational changes.
Rome is where the heart is
Dear reader, if schadenfreude were just mildly unhealthy, then I would be a corpse by now.
Signal fires for Scotland’s possible future
There is no such thing as a new old friend, and this global pestilence has reminded me of that fact.
The day a superpower finally admitted that they could not beat the Irish
On this day, 100 years ago, the preeminent power on the planet signed a truce with people they regarded as their racial inferiors.
The magical power of pallets
It is a seasonal madness in Narne Arne that ordinary folk just have to endure.
The end of an imperialist folly
Twenty years ago, in the aftermath of 911, I wrote in Magill magazine that the USA was about to blunder into an “Islamic Vietnam.”
