DUBLIN A SMALL PIECE of grit is beginning to upset the previous state of harmony that existed between Irish Government parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael: how long will each party’s leader be Taoiseach in any new administration given the disparity in seats won by the former allies. “Fianna Fail won 48 seats, to Fine…

MELBOURNE UNABLE TO EMULATE Argentina any more, because that South American state appears to have woken up to the shambolic policies it has been pursuing for decades, the Australian state of Victoria has been advised, instead, to follow the path of another South American disaster, Venezuela, if it is to continue its own economic decline,…

LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIANS RUNNING from a potential tsunami following a magnitude 7 earthquake, are being warned that the emergency is not a movie. “Californians are so used to movies about natural disasters that every time a warning is issued, the first thing they think of is another catastrophe movie being filmed,” says Pedro Hercules, an…

KYIV LONG FEARFUL OF what a Donald Trump presidency would mean for their chances of victory in the war with Russia, Ukrainians are now hoping the MAGA Man will be able to end the war on half-reasonable terms for them. “They’re hanging on now, on all fronts,” says Ulrich Hasselbruiser, a human rights lawyer from…

OUR POLITICS DESK IN THE WAKE of the Irish General Election, the country’s Labour Party says it will not enter coalition government with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael without having some smaller party, or parties, in it with them. “They’ll say it’s all about stability, but it’s really a recognition that the smaller members of…

CANBERRA AUSTRALIA’S ARMED FORCES will be the first in the world to achieve net zero while in battle. The Government is proposing to equip its fighting men, women and others with green ammunition and weapons systems that leave no carbon emissions. “This a win-win from Albo’s Army,” insisted a Canberra press officer. “The weapons will…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY THE INSIDE IS READY, the outside is still being renovated. But Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is ready enough for its most famous resident to move back in. The Hunchback of Notre Dame will ring the church bells again some time before Christmas. “We don’t know when, exactly,” said a spokesman for the…

CALI, COLUMBIA “THE CARTELS ARE celebrating. Hunter Biden is back in circulation. Prices are already rising again. God is in his heaven and Joe Biden has proved that blood is even thicker than a kilo of cocaine.” Mongol Diddy Plop, a gangster rapper with a string of drug peddling convictions and several hits banned on…

FROM OUR POLITICAL GAFFE CONTRIBUTORS AS IRISH PRIME Minister Simon Harris seems to only open his mouth to change feet, observers of the Emerald Isle’s General Election are commenting on the similarities between the Irish leader’s election campaign and that of his namesake, Kamala Harris (Remember her?) in the United States. “It has to be…

CO. WICKLOW, IRELAND “THIS IS THE difference between someone who has simply failed upwards from nowhere and a real political leader – Simon Harris always sounds like a schoolboy who has learned his poetry by heart without really understanding it; a true leader knows the meaning behind the words. Or at least pretends he does.”…