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Why isn’t Obama quizzing Bush over bail-out billions?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:07 GMT

Sooner or later, the American people will see through Obama’s lack of transparency.

Enjoy it Obama, but you’ll soon wave goodbye to the adulation

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:56:40 GMT

Obama’s supporters may be in for a huge disappointment. Below, with wife Michelle on election nightMy advice to fans of Obama remains: start murmuring, What a let-down! Get your disappointment in early, so as to ease the pain of later disillusion.

Let’s stop parading Agreement’s ambiguities and end the gridlock

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:40:55 GMT

Gerry Adams hit the nail on the side when he remarked on Sunday following the RIR’s Belfast parade: “This is ... an Irish town and for the British Army to host a march at this time is totally and absolutely reprehensible.”

How so much of our money is being washed down the drain

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:22:54 GMT

Pay up for water or the old folks get it!

Women left suffering as politicians park abortion issue

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:33:15 GMT

The manoeuvre that prevented a vote on extending the Abortion Act has dragged law in the North even deeper into disrepute.

Why are the pro-lifers always so intent on playing up fear factor?

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:21:47 GMT

Margaret recalls: “I suffer from congenital heart disease. After the birth of my third child, I was told by the cardiologist not to risk any further pregnancies as ‘it would take 15 years off your life’.

Eamonn MCann: Was it fair to jail Shahra Marsh but let greedy bankers go free?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:40:41 GMT

Nobody is immune from this banking crisis. Not Shahra Marsh. Not Mother Teresa.

How rich capitalists get gravy while poor are left with gruel

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:22:48 GMT

They don’t know what they’re doing. The US Treasury Department admitted last weekend that the $700bn it says it needs to bail out the banksters is “not based on any particular data point”. In other words, they sucked the figure out of their thumbs.

What Durkan is actually saying about sharing power at Stormont

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:00:14 GMT

The freewheeling Bob Dylan sang back in 1963: “Oxford Town, Oxford Town/Ev'rybody's got their heads bowed down.” Mark Durkan might know the feeling.

DEL may need training as it doesn’t seem fit for purpose

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:00:28 GMT

The Department of Employment and Learning (DEL) has been in training for years but still doesn’t seem fit for purpose. In Derry two days ago, job interviews for trainers under DEL’s Steps to Work programme were cancelled without explanation at a few hours’ notice.

Eamonn McCann: McCain would have no career but for his Vietnamese saviour

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:38:54 GMT

John McCain’s Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi on October 26th 1967 as he prepared to release his bombs on the city below. He parachuted into Truc Boch Lake. Mai Van On waded into the water, hauled him to safety and then, with the help of a neighbour, defended the airman from locals intent on doing him further damage.

Eamonn McCann: How police power is crucial to Sinn Fein’s state of mind

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:16:32 GMT

Suppose they gave a crisis and nobody came? Suppose Sinn Fein and the DUP told us to tremble because Stormont would collapse in the morning over the other side's attitude to policing, and everybody said, “Away o' that,” and went on about their business?

Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:21:39 GMT

Why are the Catholic bishops so concerned about Mormons baptising dead parishioners? The Mormons didn’t invent baptism of the dead. The practice has a significant history within mainstream Christianity. The decision to order its abandonment was taken only after heated debate, and was a close-run thing.

Why McCain’s pro-life stance may mean the Pill is murder

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:47:49 GMT

Listening to CNN’s live coverage of John McCain and Barack Obama from the Saddleback Civil Forum early on Sunday morning, I fell to wondering how many abortions the average woman reader of the Telegraph has had.

How Olympics have made life worse, not better, for Chinese

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:16:18 GMT

‘The greatest show the world had ever seen ... Confucius himself might have been pleased’ — The Independent.

Eamonn McCann: Why Miliband versus Brown is more about ambition than policy

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:40:35 GMT

Some people say Ralph Miliband would be turning in his grave at the behaviour of his son, David. But I don’t know. Ralph, one of the most venerable figures in British Labour history, had a wry sense of humour, too.

How Sinn Fein looked on while MI5 took over surveillance here

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:27:06 GMT

The story in Monday’s Guardian headed ‘MI5 targets dissidents as Irish terror threat grows’ was based on information supplied by MI5. Even so, it might be true. Let’s see.

Eamonn McCann: See Ash and Cat Malojian at Glasgowbury and find out how other half live

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:31 GMT

There was a fellow on the radio the other day saying that the Dublin Government’s subsidy of the Apprentice Boys’ Siege celebrations showed that, “there is growing respect between the two cultural traditions on the island.”

Eamonn McCann: See Ash and Co at Glasgowbury and find out how other half live

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:31 GMT

There was a fellow on the radio the other day saying that the Dublin Government's subsidy of the Apprentice Boys' Siege celebrations showed that, "there is growing respect between the two cultural traditions on the island."

Eamonn McCann: Why Northern Ireland women need their own Abortion Act

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:06:31 GMT

The abortion debate rages on, but do we need to clarify the law here?

Why the only way to fight wage cuts is if we all stand together

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:10 GMT

Don't moan — organise! That will be the message from Nipsa, Unison and Unite next week when council workers strike against a pay deal which would drive down their wages.

Eamonn McCann: How the West gives democracy a really good kick in the ballots

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:11 GMT

Mahmoud Abbas is no mug and no Mugabe either. The two men have shared a particular and unusual political experience: each was trounced in an election but refused to accept the result. Clinging onto power, each set about demonising, abusing and attacking the party and candidates who had won majority support.

Eamon McCann: How low paid workers have to bear the brunt of inflation

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:00:04 GMT

Any more inflation and the balloon will go up, Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling tell us. So public sector workers will just have to take a hit.