LONDON A LEADING ACCOUNTANT says that Islamic Grooming Gangs could well be entitled to charitable tax status if they can show that what they practice is in the furtherance of their faith and of benefit to its practitioners. “They simply have to demonstrate their religious purpose and show they provide some kind of public benefit,”…

CANADA DONALD TRUMP’S OFFER to buy Greenland has been met with a counter-offer by the Danish autonomous territory, to buy the United States, minus California. “The reality is, that with all its mineral resources, Greenland is probably in a better position to buy the US, than the US, with all its debt, is to buy…

DUBLIN “ONLY IN FUCKING Ireland could you have a group of independent members of parliament, who are entering coalition government, seeking to be granted speaking time from the opposition benches. And have the main government parties row in behind them. It’s beyond absurd. Are they going to make government speeches then race across to the…

WASHINGTON DC DONALD TRUMP’S CLAIM that God spared him from an assassin so that he might make America great again, has been contradicted by the Almighty who insists he was playing golf that day and missed the President’s speech. “I saw it later on CNN,” He said. “Though the coverage was so banal that it…

MOSCOW THOUSANDS OF NORTH Korean troops fighting for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin show all the signs of being AI drones, says a technological warfare expert. “They remind one of the Terracotta Army discovered in the grave of the first emperor of China about fifty years ago,” says Liddell Tzu, whose book on strategy for the…

LOS ANGELES RUMOURS THAT AT least one of the recent fires may have begun in a dry reservoir during a debate about diversity are spreading around Los Angeles like – well – wild fire. The story is that a group of diversity quota enthusiasts, on a state sponsored committee, were sitting in the dried-out reservoir,…

WASHINGTON DC WORD OF IRELAND’S Simon Harris seeking the country’s Foreign Affairs portfolio so he can fight new US President Donald Trump over the latter’s trade policy is said to have sent shivers down the spines of the new administration even as it prepares to take power. “The Donald is literally carrying a spare pair…

DUBLIN “I’LL BET HE HAD no idea that fellow was one of them. If he had even known the man was in the Dail, let alone connected to the new government, I’d say he would never have agreed to pose for that snap. I know him. He’s an ordinary decent criminal. He has his boundaries.…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY THE DETERIORATING STATE of British finances has caused the UK Government to make plans for a GoFundMe page aimed at raising enough money to help clear their debts. “We’ll be asking for just one pound a week, from everyone, for as long as it takes,” said a Westminster insider. “Like union dues. Very…

MEXICO CITY THE ARRIVAL OF Mexican firefighters to help their American neighbors fight the fires devastating Los Angeles, has seen a call for California to return to its original position as a province of Mexico. California was ‘acquired’ by the United States after the Mexican-American War of 1848, together with what is now Nevada, Arizona…