KYIV THOSE WHO FIGURED Irish leader Simon Harris’s recent visit to Ukraine was a ham-fisted publicity stunt to give him an international profile ahead of a general election on the Emerald Isle later this year, may find that there was a more pragmatic reason for his meeting President Zelenskyy: Irish plans to encourage Ukrainian refugees…

KYIV A MILITARY HISTORIAN has warned those who are cheering on Ukraine’s invasion of Russia, that once you are inside Russia the more land you take the more difficult your task becomes. Marshall Winter, whose latest tome, Victory is a Choke, is published next week, says: “In Russia you must defeat armies. If you don’t…

FROM SOMEWHERE IN CALIFORNIA THE WORLDWIDE MEDIA hype and goodwill behind US Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is so formidable, so positive, that defeat could well precipitate a disintegration of the entire left-leaning political spectrum around the globe, according to an expert. “This even tops the Hillary Wave back in 2016,” says Nik MacYeavelly of…

KHAN YUNIS AS NEWS OF 3000 Australian visas being granted to residents of the Gaza Strip causes concern among the Lucky Country’s more conservative citizens, Hamas, the organization that runs the small Palestinian territory, insists that it did not attack Israel last October just to get the much-coveted documents for ambitious Gazans. “You could say…

LONDONDERRY ONE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM’S greatest feminist exports, Nell McCafferty, has died. Born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1944, McCafferty grew up as British as Elizabeth II of Saxe Coburg Gotha in the United Kingdom’s most loyal region, until she first went to work in a Kibbutz in Palestine, and then emigrated to the…

SHANGHAI CONFUCIAN RESEARCHERS IN China have discovered that a major population decline in the Middle Kingdom may not lead to the societal collapse predicted by Western commentators but instead could well lead to a golden age where millions of elderly Chinese and their younger fellow-citizens co-operate in harmony to cope with the imbalance between the…

BY PETER COOK, OUR END OF DAYS EDITOR WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES are sure that a popular revolt against the rule of Vladimir Putin is only days away. “If not days, then weeks; and if not weeks, then months … no more than years,” explains Dr Obvius Plant, a former British Intelligence Officer who now acts…

MOSCOW THE REPORTED USE of British Challenger tanks and other Western equipment on Russian soil has provided Russian President Vladimir Putin the opportunity to tell his people that he was right all along, NATO involvement in Ukraine was all about attacking Russia. “We in the West, we see Ukrainian troops driving towards Kursk. The Russians,…

BERLIN REPORTER JULIA GREENHAM-COMMON FOR FOUR DECADES they marched, they protested, they even camped outside military bases, devoted to one thing, the elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. And then they vanished. These were the anti-nuclear protesters, people who cried out against the greatest threat facing mankind – nuclear war. Before…

DUBLIN AS IT EMERGES that Irish soldiers were following force protection protocols when they fired warning shots around a teenager intent on stabbing one of their chaplains to death in Co Galway, commentators who know about such things are asking if this was, in all the circumstances, the best response to such an incident? “The…