The Shame of Human Rights Jihadis

BY GEORGE SIMM DCM Unveiling the Impact of Repealing the 2023 NI Legacy Act: A Catastrophic Blunder In examining the socialist government’s latest political disaster—its repeal of the 2023 Northern Ireland (NI) Legacy Act, as highlighted in the Policy Exchange paper released yesterday—I initially considered describing this move as foolish or ill-advised. However, such adjectives fall woefully short of capturing the deliberate undermining of the … Continue reading The Shame of Human Rights Jihadis

On the Green Hill of Tara

Robert Adam’s new novel ‘On the Green Hill of Tara’ explores the beginning of Ireland’s formal relationship with the EEC. The backdrop to Ireland’s final accession application on 30 June 1970 was the second year of the Northern Ireland Troubles and in May of that year, the ‘Dublin Arms Crisis.’ This was the political scandal when members of Jack Lynch’s cabinet, no less, were caught … Continue reading On the Green Hill of Tara

Gardiner Miraculously Hits a Nail

BY JAMIE FOSTER There are almost no occasions I can recall openly agreeing with Labour’s Barry Gardiner about anything. If you wait long enough everything happens, eventually. His recent remarks to a think tank that Sinn Fein and the Irish Government are playing up fears of the effect of Brexit on the question of the Irish border and the Good Friday Agreement are spot on. … Continue reading Gardiner Miraculously Hits a Nail