Author: Suneil Sharma
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Board of Pricks
In Davos, Donald Trump announced the setting up of the Board of Peace, of which he will be the Chair. The announcement was equivalent to Darth Vader replacing António Guterres as Secretary General of the UN. The board is set up fulfill the second phase of Trump’s Middle East peace plan, but has morphed into…
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A Sign of Weakness
The blocking of Any Burnham by the National Executive Committee from standing for a parliamentary seat in Manchester is, quite frankly, another stupid decision in a line of many stupid decisions by Starmer, his acolytes and Morgan McSweeney. The reason given is that an election for a mayor to replace Burnham will cost too much…
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The French used Madame Guillotine; you have got the 25th Amendment.
Let’s start with something depressing: he, being Donald J Trump, has 3 more years of his presidency unless an act of God intervenes. I do not believe in an interventionist God or, for that matter, in a God; however, 90% of deluded white evangelical Christians will be praying hard for him. Here are some reasons,…
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Iran: The Tyranny of Theology
The Iranian people have been under the iron fist of religious tyranny since 1979, replacing the autocratic rule of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who in 1953 replaced a democratically elected Prime Minister,Mohammad Mosaddegh, in a coup that was supported by the CIA and MI6. Mosaddegh’s political sin was that he, with the full…
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TIME FOR THE PROLETARIAT TO RISE
I have just noticed that our great political commentators from both wings of our sectarian divide have had a eureka moment and have concluded that Stormont does not work. This has been true for at least a decade and a half, and in fact, it goes back to 1998 when this oxymoronic political structure was…
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HANUKKAH VIOLATED
Apologies, I promised I wouldn’t write another blog until the start of 2026 On Sunday, the 14th of December, two gunmen, father and son, killed 15 Jews who were at a festival on Bondi Beach celebrating Hanukkah. Is this antisemitism? Of course, it is, so this terror attack must be unreservedly condemned. A 43-year-old man…
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Apologies, My End-of-Year Rant 2025
Once again, another embarrassing and tragic year for our species has passed. Firstly, let us start off with the genocide in Gaza, where the death toll passed 70,000, which includes 20,000 children and not yet counted the many thousands who remain under 50,000 tonnes of rubble. We have a ceasefire where all the October 7…
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Public Service Broadcasters, Under Attack: It’s OUR BBC!!!!!
Let me start by saying that the daft mistake of splicing Donald Trump’s January 20 speech, in which he encouraged the overturning of a fair and free election, has now been acknowledged by the BBC, and an unreserved apology has been made to the world’s most famous narcissist and “pussy grabber”. Trump is the man…
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A War of Words: Playing Identity Politics as Rome Burns.
We, by which I mean ordinary citizens of this dysfunctional political system, have just appointed 3 people into three non-jobs, the Commissioner of the Irish Language, Pol Deed, Lee Reynolds, Commissioner for Gibberish, and Ulster British Tradition, whatever that is and finally Katy Radford as the Director of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression,…
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Two privileged men at Prayer
I have, unfortunately, been watching King Charles’s state visit to the Vatican to meet Pope Leo and listening to a bunch of other male cardinals and bishops waxing about the importance of the visit. The first thing that struck me was, where is the newly appointed and first female Archbishop of Canterbury? Apparently, she was…
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