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PBMay-June 2023May-June 20235It seems so long ago that this column would start with nice animal drawings of the US President. Now all Villager’s Presidential ideas are typed.Bumpy for TrumpieManhattan DA Alvin Bragg, sitting on his 34-point indictment, may soon have company in his pursuit of Trump, from prosecutors elsewhere. Special counsel Jack Smith is considering […]
August/September 20225Crick you brickOne inspiring perspective on politics, relevant to the abortion debate, came from Bernard Crick, a British political theorist who died in 2008. He wrote that politics, is a marketplace where irrec–oncilable interests come to resolve their difer–ences through compromise in order that people can devote their passions to the really important things […]
Harris asleep Young Simon Harris seems to think the women of Ireland will stay loyal to him if he just puckers up and adopts the mantra that it was all an honour and done for Mná na hÉireann. The night before the referendum he tweeted in what is being seen as a ‘Song of the […]
No Catholics or bastards please, we’re British Villager despises royalty, as anyone who believes in equality, merit or good taste, must. Interesting though that new-born Prince whatsit will come in fifth in line to the “throne”. Time was the new “Prince” would have been advanced to it over his older sister (Princess whatsit), as a male. […]