FROM OUR VIKING DESK “YOU ARE EITHER with us or with the Vikings.” The White House staffer took out his cellphone and pointed to a photograph of Greenland. “You know they only called it Greenland to sucker settlers over the sea. Goddamit, those Danes, they are cruel people. Have you read the history of the…

LOS ANGELES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP takes a wrecking ball to the international trading order, an ominous sign has indicated that the American economy he says he is trying to save, might be in poorer shape than imagined. The so-called Sugar Index has been a guide to economic health for over half a century. In essence…

DUBLIN CONOR MCGREGOR HAS confirmed a recent Kookaburra Bugle story about his leadership qualities by announcing that he will run for President of his native Ireland this year. “This is the headache official Ireland was dreading,”says Dr Peadar O’Peadar, whose recent book Official Ireland Is Dead And Gone: It’s With Anglo Irish Bank In Bankruptcy,…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY FOLLOWING THE SUPERCHARGED bromance between the US President and the Irish Mixed Martial Artist, a poll taken around the world saw an overwhelming number of respondents say they believed that Conor McGregor just had to be his country’s leader, as opposed to a minuscule number who recognized Micheal Martin as the Irish Prime…

BELFAST “WOULDN’T IT BE ironic if Ireland did unite, but under the flag of the crescent moon? Wouldn’t we all feel silly?” The words of a former IRA volunteer were echoed by two men whom he once would have considered mortal enemies. They were commenting on news that Islamic fundamentalists were planning attacks in Belfast.…

BELFAST SINN FEIN CAN explain why it often has contradictory policies in the north and south of Ireland with one word: cost. “You see, in the South we’re in opposition, so we don’t have to worry about cost,” says Davis Lalor Devoy O’Donovan Rossa, a party activist. “While in the North, we run the place…

KHAN YUNIS MONTHS AFTER HE promised to turn Gaza into a Riviera paradise, Palestinian militant group Hamas’ fighters are complaining that Donald Trump is, like every other builder they have ever known, late. “He said he would transform Gaza,” said Mustafa, from a tunnel under the narrow strip during an Israeli bombardment. “I would have…

CANBERRA THE RECENT CIRCUMNAVIGATION of Australia by Chinese warships was caused by broken steering, according to a secret ASIO report. The warships, which conducted live fire exercises, were originally thought to be threatening Australia, however it is now understood they were trying to signal their distress to passing ships and aircraft. “All their steering mechanisms…

LONDON UK CHANCELLOR RACHEL Reeves appears to have demonstrated how the future can influence the past when she blamed actions of Donald Trump which have yet to happen to the UK for her country’s desperate economic performance. Ms Reeves, known as a giant in economic thinking, and a public speaker to rival Cicero and Winston…

MOSCOW DONALD TRUMP’S THREAT to devastate Russia financially if it will not cease fire in Ukraine, has thrown up an intriguing question: what has the United States not done to Russia already, that it will do now, aside from direct military action to actually physically destroy Russian infrastructure? “This is the fly in the buttermilk,”…