Tag: Show- Sputnik Orbiting the World

Not for a hundred years has the world’s eyes been on Dublin as much as they were this week. Sinn Féin – which means ‘ourselves alone’ in English – swept the past aside. Formerly derided as the ‘political wing of the IRA’ … Read More >Irish election results and Labour’s wait

“It’s the Deal of the Century,” says President Donald Trump, one of the greatest salesmen in history. “A final chance for the Palestinians to secure statehood,” says Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and officially, at least, the author of ‘the Deal’. … Read More >Kushner Plan and vegan future

Is Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) being quietly transformed from a public health system, designed to deliver healthcare to everyone dependent on need, into one where much of its activities have been outsourced to private companies? … Read More >The great NHS sell-off and Madness

The words ‘respected’ and ‘journalist’ used to go together like a horse and carriage, but times have sadly changed. Too many of today’s ‘journalists’ have become mere stenographers to power, as we saw in the Iraq War, when false government claims that Iraq possessed WMDs went virtually unchallenged. … Read More >Good journalism and a political respite