BELFAST IT APPEARS THAT Daily Mail pin-up Colonel Tim Collins – hero of the shambolic invasion of Iraq twenty years ago – is dragging himself away from his lucrative career in private security and – to quote one critical voice – choosing to climb aboard the Titanic after it’s struck the iceberg, looking for the…

KYIV “WHAT DO YOU do when you’re fighting for your life, and a world that cheered you on a year before just loses interest?” The Ukrainian soldier kept staring at the prosthetic that extended from his knee. “It’s still out there, you know, near Robotyne.” He looked up. “The remains of my leg. In the…

CANBERRA A PLAN TO replace the current Australian flag, with an image both white and black Aussies can share, has been suggested by a pressure group dedicated to ending the tension over 26 January each year. “Shackles,” explained Bruce Bluey of Unlock. “The first whites to come here, they came in shackles. And ever since,…

FROM DUBLIN BRITAIN’S TOP MILITARY hero has warned the general population of Brexit Britain, that recruitment for his forces is so low, conscription would have to be reintroduced if the country had to fight Russia in the near future. However, General Sir Patrick Saunders’ suggestion is being seen in some quarters as a perfect way…

BY OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT CYRANO SIMONE DE GAULLE THERE WAS NOT a sign of embarrassment on his face when he spoke; though the irony screamed to the heavens backed by a chorus of hypocrisy. Do as I say, not as I do, President Macron told his people. I have no children but you must have…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY “ASSISTED SUICIDE IS NOW the third largest source of tech start-ups across the Western World.” Adam Evequibit, a tech entrepreneur and sometime lifestyle guru, whose last eighteen start-ups all attained multi-billion dollar valuations before entering Chapter 11, insists death is the new lifeline for tech start-ups. “The spectacular failure of so many recent…

BY NELSON DE BOER ROBERTS HOMICIDE IS AVAILABLE to all South Africans on a thoroughly equal basis, according to a new study. Following recent gibes by senior Israelis about the death rates of white farmers there, a survey by One Bullet One Settler, a left-wing think tank based in Johannesburg, claims that murder in South…

FROM OUR AFRICA DESK “LET’S FACE IT, South Africa is a proper basket case and this court action is the return of a favor to the Palestinians by the African National Congress for support during apartheid. There’s a good chance that ANC-led South Africa will not be around to see the outcome. If Israel isn’t,…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY LIFE FOR SOME British people has become so intolerable that they are pretending to be asylum seekers so that the Sunak Government will deport them to Rwanda, says a migration lawyer based in London. “They think they might be able to have a better life in central Africa,” says Toby Rnotobe, himself the…