LONDON FOLLOWING THE DECISION to discontinued a series of sketches from the series, That Mitchell and Webb Look, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is said to be considering a proposal to gather up all the programs it now deems too offensive to broadcast and put them out on a new subscriber-based channel, BBC Offensive. “It’s…

CANBERRA AUSTRALIA’S INTERNAL SPY agency, ASIO, is officially denying that a Koala from Queensland has been arrested and accused of being a Chinese agent. The Koala, who has not been named, is said to have been discovered near a military facility close to the Great Barrier Reef, carrying sophisticated signals equipment, an iPad and a…

DOONBEG UNITED STATES DIPLOMATS are strongly denying that their President, Donald Trump, departed Ireland after two days there, singing a contentious Irish rebel chant as his plane left the ground. Christened “Clare Force One” because of the President’s golf course in County Clare, people who watched his plane’s take off were convinced they could hear…

CARDIFF SEEING THE NATIONALIST leaders of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales take matters into their own hands by demanding independence referendums without reference to London, has uncanny echoes of what happened in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1991. “Suddenly, the central government is simply by-passed by the constituent parts. Instead of argument, they just…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY FOLLOWING HIS CONTENTIOUS comments on the future of the Falkland islands, and Irish Unity, news that President Donald Trump plans a visit to Gibraltar has some British commentators in a frenzy over what he might propose for their tiny colonial possession at the very tip of Spain. “I’m sure he will reinforce the…

DUBLIN SO THE SECRET is out. For centuries the Irish have hidden behind a veneer of smiles and welcomes and all that malarkey, until now. In his own inimitable way, US President Donald Trump has has pulled the mask off his island hosts and revealed them for the “vicious bastards” they are. He made the…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY AFTER BEING ORDERED to curtail exercises due to lack of money, the British military has plans to finance itself using GoFundMe. All branches of the British armed services are suffering crippling problems with costs, while the country itself is burdened with unprecedented debt problems. The British Army has been told to cancel all…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY IT’S NOT CALLED doomscrolling for nothing. If you want people to watch your YouTube post, tell them something bad is on its away. If you want to grab their attention immediately, tell them they have been lied to. “No one ever got rich online telling people the world isn’t such a bad place…

BELFAST THE FIVE-YEAR Irish Unity Bond has seen its yield rise sharply following UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s declaration that a referendum on the reunification of the island was off the table. “The five-year bond is the key instrument tracking the likelihood of a referendum,” says bond market analyst Ralph Hedge. “There is no two-year…