A sad tribute act is compelling viewing in Donegal

In these turbulent times, it is reassuring that some things can weather the storm of events and remain unchanged.

The match at Fir Park yesterday added to the catalogue of Honest Mistakes, which inexplicably aided the Favoured Franchise.

The rest of Scottish football appears to tolerate this state of affairs.

Baffling…

Another day another paedophilia expose of the Saxe Coburg Gotha crime crew.

This isn’t exactly news about the behaviour of this sea-going Savile.

However, having it stated in open court IS new.

If he was alive, it is the sort of thing that costs around £12m to go away.

Kincora is a legacy issue that will not go away for Britain’s spooks.

Mountbatten was only one of the powerful men who visited that chamber of horrors in Belfast.

Here’s a question:

Did Eilís a Dó know?

Remember, every “honourable member” of the British Parliament has to swear an oath of allegiance to this dodgy family.

After that, any claims to be any type of radical are rather plastic.

Westminster is undoubtedly the legislature of a declining polity.

This morning the current British Prime Minister had her programme for government defenestrated on live TV.

The only thing missing from the appropriate historical context was that the window should have been in Tamworth.

This is what makes the British Conservative Party THE most successful electoral machine, probably in world politics.

Their ability to shamefully volte-face without missing a beat.

Now, the British people are about to have yet another leader imposed upon them.

Your Donegal correspondent has the vantage point of being able to take a step back from the rapid flurry of events in the Westminster village.

This just looks like another way marker on the long road of historical decline since the euphoria of VE Day.

The Brits didn’t know it, but their days at the centre of a global imperium were over.

An amazing period of pre-eminence that started with the victory at Plassey in 1757 ended with Hiroshima.

The first wake-up call for the Brits was the Suez Crisis.

After that, they knew Uncle Sam was in charge of the non-communist world.

By the 1960s, the few remaining Crown colonies, especially in the Caribbean, were re-invented as offshore tax havens, and that is what they’ve remained for the global super-rich.

The Brexit mantra of Take Back Control was a code word to the generation of Brits who were children when  President Eisenhower put Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in his post-imperial box.

Only historians can judge if the Truss reign of error was significant in the last days of the United Kingdom.

We have a legitimate vested interest in these questions because of the Six Counties.

One thing is sure is that the global superpower that my grandparents’ generation fought is as dead as Rangers.

Britain after Brexit is a sad case.

A post-imperial tribute act that is plagued with money troubles and legal disputes.

It is playing dress up to remind and reassure a racist demographic of an imagined golden age.

Dear reader, the similarity with Sevco is striking.

Have a great week.