FROM OUR REPORTER ON ROCKALL FOLLOWING THE RECENT humiliating failure of the Royal Navy’s attempt to test fire a Trident missile from one of its nuclear submarines, attention has been drawn to the parlous state of the once great wave-ruling power, which appears to have fallen on even harder times than Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTE.…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY IT USED TO be that China employed pandas in diplomacy, now they are training the adorable creatures in intelligence gathering, according to a former CIA agent. “Delivery of Chinese pandas to western zoos used to be a source of joy,” says Kurt Reeplie, who spent forty years in the CIA trying to get…

FROM VALHALLA TWO MEN. TWO deaths in custody. Two prefabricated martyrs. Gonzalo Lira was working as a journalist in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities didn’t dig what he said about the country. They called him a Russian stooge. He was actually a Chilean-American sometime novelist and film maker, who once even worked as a dating coach.…

MOSCOW EDITOR, BORIS O’KANE FOLLOWING PUTIN SIDEKICK Dmitry Medvedev’s recent outburst threatening nuclear annihilation to sundry western countries, fears are growing that British spy agency MI5’s headquarters in Belfast will be a target in any such attack. “It wouldn’t take much,” explains Dr Noel Kryticalmass, an expert in nuclear war based in London. “A small…

KYIV “THE UKRAINIAN WITHDRAWAL from Avdiivak is not a clever advance to the rear, nor a strategic move to save lives, nor the abandonment of useless real estate after making the Russian army pay a terrible price in blood. It is a defeat and a significant defeat. That’s defeat. D.E.F.E.A.T.” The words of our reporter…

FROM MOSCOW MILLIONS HAVE WATCHED him spar with Tucker Carlson, and now millions of those millions have given their verdict in a poll: they want Vladimir Putin for President. And not of Russia, but of the United States of America. “That guy rocks,’ says Proud Boy Dave who served in Iraq. “Our poor dweebs look like…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY “YOU HAVE MILLIONS of Ukrainians fleeing their beleaguered homeland for the safety of other European countries, while that same homeland is pleading for the return of hundreds of thousands of men of fighting age who are hiding abroad while their brothers and, yes, sisters because our women have to fill the gap they…

FROM OUR NORTH AMERICAN EDITOR SINEAD WHEELER-DEALER IN WASHINGTON, DC WE’VE SEE BLACK Power and Girl Power and Gay Power; well now it’s definitely the age of Grey Power. As the US Presidential election heats up, there’s only one issue that counts any more: does the candidate have all his marbles and will he have…

LONDON, ENGLAND WELL BILLY, it’s like this: It would take an invading Russian armored column travelling at an average speed of 30 kilometres pre hour, about 75 hours , that’s three days, to reach the English channel from the current Russian border. This is based upon the vehicles in the column traveling constantly, and meeting…

FROM OUR DEMOGRAPHICS DESK IT MAY BE the hidden slow-acting poison that no one notices until it’s too late, namely the richer your society gets the more distracted it becomes, and the less children it has. Until one day it has no children. “People who even understand the concept usually see entropy – the tendency…