Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant

Here we have Punk royalty in the shape of the Pistols, a nihilistic group of malcontents who rocked the British Establishment for an all-to-brief period in the 70’s.

On Ireland

Despair ye who dare, for the subjugated majority who have lost their national self-respect, who would yet grovel to feed and fuel the low self-esteem of the Irish people. …yet a flame of patriotism burns fiercely, a torch carried doggedly by the few who know; the few with the confidence of an unbeaten minority; the […]

Defining both ‘Socialist’ and ‘Capitalist’ In Human Terms

Socialism – a political and economic theory or system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are owned by the community collectively, usually through the state.  Capitalism – an economic system based on the private ownership of industry. Socialism – a political and economic theory which holds that a country’s land, transport, natural […]

Hate the Uniform, Not the Man

Recently, I had cause to recall an incident from my youth (not today or yesterday) when I encountered a member of the British Army who was stationed at that time in my home region of the Occupied Six Counties (OSC) of Ireland. It was a summer weekend and I was in Cookstown, a small, politically-mixed […]