What Is The Truth Anyway?

Truth Is A Strange Fruit by David Beresford is a strange but intriguing and informative book, anecdotal and episodic. The book was first published in 2010 but it was bought for me as a Christmas present just past. Beresford is, of course, the author of that classic...

Paisley’s Vulturesong

The avuncular, conciliatory image which Ian Paisley almost got away with promoting in his golden years and which deluded so many was undone within minutes of last night’s television documentary by Eamonn Mallie. Once again the ego and pompousness and bigotry...

Heil, Adolf Sharon!

Ariel Sharon died yesterday, Saturday 11th January. I wrote about him several times. This feature – Heil, Adolf Sharon! – is from my 2004 book, Rebel Columns. George Bush’s best friend, the Prime Minister of Israel, Adolf Sharon, is a mass murderer, a...

A Writer At War

And now I have to try to retrieve the novel Life and Fate which I lent to a friend two years ago before I had read it myself! Recently I finished (pictured, front) Vasily Grossman’s A Writer at War culled from the notebooks he used as a war correspondent for Red Star,...

Twaddell & Flags

Tony Novosel’s excellent and substantial analysis, ‘Where Do We Go From Here’ (October 14th) on Eamonn Mallie’s website, should be read and considered by both loyalists and republicans. My own view is that the flag and Twaddell protests will...

A Workable Political Process?

It will be sad and a major setback if 5000 jobs are not realised and £300 million in investment lost. More important than Peter Robinson reneging on the MLK project, is what his decision symbolises. Yes, it is far bigger than jobs and investment: it is whether there...