FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT DELTA BURNING IN MISSISSIPPI “KOHEN WILEY WAS a clear and present danger when he was killed. Don’t be fooled by his cuteness. This one-year-old shot dead by police in Senatobia, Mississippi, last June, is part of a growing scourge of babies who are obviously a deadly threat to their communities, and to…

PARIS A COPY OF Irish literary star, Sally Rooney’s novel, Normal People, was used by an angry mob to start a fire in a Jewish bookshop full of the author’s work, in Marseille, says a woman who witnessed the event. “I was staring into my mirror. I saw the crowd as they burned that book…

ENTERTAINMENT DESK IF YOU THINK that the revelation that Tom Cruise’s new movie, Digger, turns out to be a play about the central character, is a twist, then you’ve been going to far too many superhero and franchise films and are a member of a growing dumbocracy spreading across the Western World. Digger made me…

FROM OUR TRAVEL DESK A NEW BUDGET airline, which will operate from the Persian Gulf region, is ready to offer passengers from western countries one-way tickets for $1, according to industry sources. FlyJihad promises to reach its target destinations at top speed. Among those destinations will be New York, Paris, London, Tel Aviv and Sydney.…

CALIFORNIA DESPITE DENIALS, RUMORS abound that the Republican Party is actively raising money for another Kamala Harris presidential campaign. “The way things are right now, with the Iran war stalled, fuel prices up, interest rates rising, and GOP numbers shaky for the midterms, our best chance for retaining the presidency in 2028 is definitley for…

FROM OUR IRONY EDITORS VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING may provide the American state of Tennessee with a surer way of ensuring death during judicial executions, according to a new report. Following the recent failure to kill Christa Pike, a secret study has suggested that sending death row prisoners to Canada or Australia to avail of their…

DUBLIN A VETERAN SERVANT of Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTE, says that the struggling network could solve all its current financial problems by securing the right to broadcast executions from the United States. The old warhorse, who wishes to stay anonymous, is concerned that when his time to jump ship comes, there just won’t be enough…

WASHINGTON, DC THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY United States Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, that mass killer Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s execution by firing squad will be live-streamed, has led to a suggestion that Federal executions in the United States could be used to pay off the country’s huge national debt. “The Bond Market is very excited,”…

DRUMCREE CHURCH “THEY CANNOT CHICKEN out now, it would be a disaster for the Unionist cause. No matter what happens to them, no matter what terrible apprehensions haunt their immortal souls, no matter what terrors stalk them, these 35 men have to march down Garvaghy Road, through thousands of angry Fenians who want to block…

PORTADOWN THEIR MARCH IS now legal. Anyone blocking it risks being in breach of the law. The Police Service of Northern Ireland will be obliged to make sure the march goes through, unscathed. So the scene is set on Garvaghy Road, Portadown, for 35 very brave Orange Men, all Protestants, supported by a predominantly Protestant…