Stonebreakers’ yard in Kilmainham Gaol where the Easter Rising leaders were executed It’s been some time since I read the “Proclamation of the Irish Republic to the People of Ireland”. When I was a boarder at St Colman’s College…
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The Queen: good at playing it long Self-confident and assured, the Queen has negotiated the difficulties of her reign with apparent ease. Stoicism and a grim determination to keep calm and carry on are the foundations of her success.…
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Theo Paphitis: ‘Horrendous” experience doing business in Northern Ireland I must admit that until this week I had never heard of Boux Avenue. I have now. Online it’s offering two-for-one PJs in a bag. How many shopping days are…
Continue ReadingThe Hubris Syndrome and how to avoid it
Hail Caesar: Men willingly believe what they wish to be true I have just finished reading the final novel in Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy. Dictator takes us through the decline and fall of the Roman Republic. It was destroyed…
Continue ReadingIsolationist May leads the return of ‘the nasty party’
Theresa May: getting tough on immigration There’s a little bit of a racist in each of us. It is a trait that must be confronted, but it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Fear of the unknown is programmed into…
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