Sage Despatches

Something for the weekend. This is still one of my most popular blogs. It's part of a series but it's ok to dip in. The blog post is about the IRA attack on Loughgall RUC station in 1987 and the related counter-terrorist operation. wp.me/pceEfe-1p0

It's been one of those days. Blocking terrorist fanboys is like popping bubblewrap. All I said was that it's good news a terrorist is dead. They're so sensitive.

Horror isn't my first choice as a film genre but if horror is what you're looking for, here's two on Amazon. If you want horror with laughs, 'Shaun of the Dead' is an obvious choice. It's an amusing twist on the zombie apocalypse sub-genre. It can be a bit gory but only in a…

So anyway.... a couple of more Amazon film recommendations. It doesn't matter if you have seen these before, they are so rewatchable I have them on DVD. They are also both what I call 'cinematic essentials'. They are both perfect tens. It's a drama double bill. 'The Departed',…

Thanks to successive governments we have an Alice in Wonderland situation in Northern Ireland. Known terrorists have been given the necessary space to portray themselves as "soldiers" or "peacemakers" etc. It's just all narrative bollocks of course. The average person knows the…

I'm havimg a concoction for dinner today. It ain't pretty but...

If terrorist fanboys were upset by my brief comment today, they really won't like what I have to say about some other people. I'm just waiting patiently until moral and legal restraints are removed and then it becomes an online free fire zone.

It's hard to care about online criticism from terrorist fanboys when it's bleeding obvious the accounts being used are just trolling accounts that muppets use instead of their actual regular account. A quick glance at the profile, stats and online activity is all it takes. For…

In a way it's really quite remarkable that after all these years, in the era of the Internet and access to so much information, that so many muppets still believe the RUC was disbanded. But of course, it fits a preferred propaganda narrative and unsurprisingly the muppets believe…

The student is free to be an arsehole in their own time, somewhere else. Free speech doesn't give people the right to hijack every event or location. If they feel strongly about an issue, they could stand on a street corner somewhere and hold their little flag. Ideally, if they…

I dash off a quick post in about ten seconds and look at the response. Other times, I toil over a warm keyboard and yet, pretty there's pretty much nothing in response. I'm only mentioning this as an example of what I said earlier. If I wanted to play the social media game,…

On today's themes of dead terrorists and also nefarious conspiracies such as a 'shoot to kill policy', I will offer this nugget of reality. I will use the IRA trio killed in Gibraltar as an example. The IRA's Gibraltar plot was compromised before the terrorists had even left…

It wasn't a 'war' of the variety that IRA propagandists like to portray, but it was certainly an implosion of IRA principles. For quite a long time, I've been explaining on here and in my blog, why it was an implosion. I even said it occurred in slow motion and that you can…

The 'shoot to kill' narrative is so idiotic it's laughable but there's a lot of people buy into it because they want to believe it's true. A certain section of the news media play along because it makes a good story, boosts ratings, plus it's an opportunity to adopt a serious…

If the British State had a 'shoot to kill policy' regarding IRA terrorists, Patrick Ryan wouldn't have died, aged 94. He wouldn't have even made it out of the 1970s. It wasn't a secret that Ryan was involved in terrorism and it wasn't a secret he was operating on mainland…

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, it's ok to comment on something that happened days or weeks ago. If it's ok for people to drone on about "800 years of British oppression", then it's ok for me to comment on a scumbag who snuffed it more than 24 hours ago. Strange as…

It's interesting to watch the virtue signalling Palestinian flag emoji cult, eulogising Patrick Ryan, who for decades acted as the IRA's quartermaster on continental Europe. The very same people who indulge in faux outrage about Israeli activity in Gaza, complaining about the…

I'm middle-aged aged and Generation X. In many ways, I could be the poster boy for 'my community'. For instance, there's my healthy lack of interest in deranged people who strongly disagree with me. I don't need a pastel coloured "safety space". I just need a block option or some…

Just to prove a point I made earlier about the Google news and weather notifications I receive, here's one from moments ago.