Month: October 2019

The Bugaled Breizh was lost with all five crewmen fifteen years ago, in January 2004, off the Lizard Peninsula. Successive enquiries both in the UK and France have postulated a number of theories for the sinking of a well crewed, well equipped and

Someone in the British government has a sense of humour. When Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met UK PM Boris Johnson earlier this month they chose ‘neutral ground’, Thornton Manor on the Wirral. Let’s hope that everyone on the Irish side ‘kept their guard

The Joint Warrior series of exercises for 2019 concluded this month. The events which involve large numbers of NATO warships, submarines, aircraft and troops congregate on the periphery of Britain twice yearly in a series of exercises that pose not just environmental dangers

The Kurds are a people who have been struggling to assert their independence and preserve their culture and identity for centuries. They are constantly let down by those they ally and support most recently by the United States which after allowing them to