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…

WASHINGTON BUREAU A FORMER PROFESSIONAL hit man says US Presidential candidate Donald Trump probably survived the recent assassination attempt on him because of the unique texture and color of his hair. J.A Kill, who claims to have worked for the Colombo Crime Family, Mossad, North Korea and Cuba in his time as a professional murderer,…

FROM OUR SPACE CORRESPONDENT, TOM MAJOR A GROUP OF cosmic observers using a satellite to search for alien life across the Universe say that they have discovered what appears to be an extra-terrestrial communication which they claim says no intelligent life can be found on Earth. “Could this be why we have not met any…

KURSK UKRAINIAN LEADERS HAVE revealed to the world that their intention is to drive the Russians out of Russia, or at least as much of it as they can. “This new offensive into Russia is what Ulster Protestants call a return of serve,” said a well-placed general. “What is sauce for the goose is vodka…

BELFAST FOLLOWING THE RECENT anti-migrant love-in between hard-line Ulster Loyalists and right-wing Irish Nationalists in Belfast, the Nationalists who found themselves welcomed as comrades by their former Unionist enemies, say that hard-core Fascism is perhaps the way to speed up Irish unity. “Look we’re not really into all the black shirts and leather, and we…

FROM OUR DOMESTIC PET EDITOR, FELIX POOCH THERE ARE MORE pet dogs in the United States of America than children. There are more pet cats in the United States of America than children. There are about 90 million pet dogs in the United States of America. There are about 80 million pet cats in the…

KYIV “SHOULD HAVE ALL of it by Christmas. That’s Christmas 2350 at the current rate of advance.” Ivan Demisovych spent his youth fighting in Stalingrad and his middle age in a Gulag. He knows Russia, he knows Russians. He lives in a small cabin in the Siberian forests that dominate Asiatic Russia. He has no…

SYDNEY IF YOU LOG on to The Sydney Morning Herald website, the paper has a sad story of hubris and suicide from The Hamptons on Long Island, New York. The story is not important. Access to it is. The Sydney Morning Herald wants you to pay for access. Click on to The New York Times…