NORTH and South we are going backwards.  Instead of things improving the crises in housing, health, employment and cost of living continue to get worse and worse.

Research shows trust in mainstream media is declining globally as audiences perceive political parroting, witness billionaire acquisitions.  Awakenings may not save Gaza, but understanding its significance and who are the perpetrators matters.

When there’s even a hint of a different approach (Labour’s ever diluted Employment Rights proposals or the NI Assembly’s Good Jobs Bill) that might move the UK towards hardly revolutionary European norms, the ear-splitting squealing of capitalist pigs is deafening. While some of their reaction is performative, it also hints at their vulnerability in that they know, historically, that collective, democratic challenge can stop the powerful acting with impunity.

THE decision by UEFA to allow Israel (a non-European country) to participate in the European Nations’ Cup competition despite the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank is deplorable.

WITH new revelations coming out every day it would been easier to name those who have not met Jeffrey Epstein. Those who up to now have not been named but were acquainted with him must be living in trepidation that they will be next.

IT is good to feel safe and secure in our homes and our countries but more and more this is less the case. The drive towards war in Britain and Europe is generally increasing. Recently there was the proposal to bring back national service –still an option- and now there is open talk about war with Russia. But it is a catch 22 as with the development of nuclear warfare they say we have to be ready for war with Russia, but that preparation brings on the war. 

On the 1st of February 2026 the annual Bloody Sunday march took a place in Derry observing the day in 1972 when 26 people were shot-14 of them killed by the British Army Paratroopers.

IRISH News columnist John Manley wrote a piece in the paper -27 Jan-under the heading “for God and Israel” which posed the question as to what lies behind unionism’s strong and enduring affiliation with Zionism?

WHILE opinion polls, North and South, show an increasing discontent with the failures of the current system, especially in housing, health services and the cost of living crisis, there is at the same time a frustrating sense of helplessness.

But the working class is only helpless when it stands back and leaves the development of social and economic policy in the hands of others.

MARY Wollstonecraft, advocate of women’s rights, she grew up immersed in debates about reason, social reform, and equality. Frankenstein engages with contemporary materialist science, presenting life as a product of matter rather than divine intervention. Political and social pressures extended to her family: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s atheism and radicalism made England hostile, prompting the couple’s 1816 exile to the Continent.