4 November 2014
Villager
Meaningful surnames
So Jared Payne’s an injury doubt for
upcoming rugby internationals, while
Ireland’s second try-scorer against South
Africa is pretty-boy Tommy Bowe.
Keane to defend himself
Roy in Portmarnock book fracas…zzzzzzzzz.
Globalism and tax breaks
Bono and the IDA want to change the
World. Villager wonders what people
who want to keep it the same look like.
The People’s Peter Mathews
Michael Fitzmaurice is beginning to
make quite an impression in the Dáil.
Multinational Back
The French Front National’s Marine and
her dad Jean-Marie Le Pen seem to have
fallen out, after his dog ate her cat on the
family compound outside Paris over the
summer. A few months ago she said his
suggestion that Patrick Bruel, a Jewish singer,
should be “put in an oven” was a “serious
political mistake”. Villager certainly would
not demur. Now she wants to change the
national front’s name but he says “only
bankrupt parties change their names”. Ok
then, how about just change the policies?
Trust not Front
The Chairman of the English National Trust,
Sir Simon Jenkins, a former editor of The
Times, has attacked David Cameron, who
once said he’d no more put the countryside
at risk than his own family, for abandoning
Tory election pledges including by calling for
a £15bn “100-roads revolution” by the end
of the decade. Jenkins accused former Tory
planning minister, Nic Boles – whose father,
Jack, counter-intuitively was head of the
National Trust 1975-1983, of being effectively
a recruiting officer for UKIP which apparently
is understanding about the countryside. Such
language would never be heard in Ireland’s
National Trust, not since the never-knighted
editor here – then An Taisce chairman -
called Eamon O’Cuív a gobshite, in 2001.
Morgangst
Villager doesn’t really do heroes. Gandhi
maybe or Mandela. In Ireland we’ve em Adi
Roche and Morgan Kelly. Anyway, the ECB
has gently done the bank tests and only PTSB
subterranean blues
Simon Jenkins