KHAN YUNIS HAMAS HAS OFFERED to release Israel from its eleven months of captivity if the Jewish state will cease bombing Gaza. “We’ll let them go if they stop killing our civilians,” said a spokesman for the Palestinian group. “If this goes on any longer we cannot be responsible for the state of the Israeli…

NEWCASTLE AUSTRALIA’S LABOR GOVERNMENT insists that an earthquake in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley had no relationship to new internal polls which show the Federal administration’s popularity sliding in the face of economic pain being suffered by people across the Commonwealth. “The earth has moved but the Australian Government has not,” says Bluey Digger, whose…

DUBLIN NEWS THAT ENGLAND manager Lee Carsley will not be singing the English National Anthem at the coming Ireland-England football match in Dublin, has led to calls for anthems to be dispensed with and everyone in the stadium to come together and sing Ooh Aah Up the Ra, which has become popular among young people…

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…