What I did on my holidays. My great holiday plans today by the way included washing my jeans. In Ireland, petrol stations as you and I know them. Poland, or coal you do polishing with. When I first saw it I thought it said Popish coal.

The US has created ISIS to destabilise the Middle East. British Clandestine Operations to Subvert Scotland. A Westminster Promise Is No Promise At All. Only in Ireland can we get away with saying that we might have told our Scottish neighbours so. Almost exactly one hundred years ago the whole island of Ireland secured the British. Beware of the hoof of the horse, the horn of the bull, and the smile of the Saxon.

Sticky Rice, Strudels and Stouts. Our savings were dropping like the mercury in a coldsnap and London was calling for us like a classroom rollcall. Sometimes you could see one on the horizon. Sometimes one would race diagonally across below you.