I’ve written a few times recently about the intimidatory pro-Palestinian marches in my neighbourhood with their aggressive thinly-disguised slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel. Published: 28 November 2023 It’s deeply disturbing in England, that bastion of...
So what have our friends in Sinn Fein (as Jeremy Corbyn would call them) been up to recently? Published: 21 November 2023 Well, amongst other unpleasant activities, over the past few years, they’ve been stepping up their strategy of trying to silence critics north...
Even in these terrible times, there are moments of joy from the Middle East. While Israel struggles for survival, and we mourn direct and indirect victims of the Hamas death cult, Douglas Murray’s online devastating put-downs of ignorance, hypocrisy, groupthink and...
On Saturday evening, in the centre of London, I found myself in the middle of excitable anti-Israel protestors, some of whom were throwing fireworks at police, and all of whom were paralysing traffic and blocking access to the underground. Published: 7 November 2023...
On Sunday I went with two other gentiles to a rally in Trafalgar Square, London, in support of Israel. I found it almost unbearable to listen to close relatives of some of those murdered or kidnapped, as it has been when I’ve heard at first hand the stories of...
Journalist Andrew Neil summarised my feelings in a tweet on Sunday. “Looking at these shameful pro-Hamas demonstrations in London and elsewhere yesterday it struck me that Israel must be the only country in the world that is attacked for being attacked by a...
The country thought it could have its cake and eat it, by relying on the hated British for its defence Published: 1 July 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is posing Ireland – which is not a Nato member – with difficult choices. In its happy position of having next...
Doug Beattie, leader of the UUP, and Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Fein, were in the United States last week. Published: 7 December 2021 Separately, they met many of the same people and addressed several of the same New York and Washington audiences, but they...
The names of political parties often don’t convey much information. Published: 12 October 2021 If you were a stranger to Northern Ireland politics, what would you make of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Progressive Unionist Party, the Traditional Unionist Party and...
In 2019 I was a guest speaker — the warm-up act for Kevin Myers, a great journalist who had been professionally destroyed by a Twitter mob — at a reunion in the Clogher Valley of ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. Published: 3 November 2020 On the face of it,...
