Monthly Archives: July 2021

The Other Sceptr’d Isle III

Posted on July 30, 2021 by davidsberry

The Hiatus (Part 3 of 5) The North established their own parliament at Stormont in June 1921 and any sense of this arrangement being temporary quickly faded. Over a million Protestants ruled over 400,000 Catholics, as they had intended. Thanks … Continue reading →

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The Other Sceptr’d Isle II

Posted on July 28, 2021 by davidsberry

The History (Part 2 of 5) Post-1066, the Normans, who had made short work of England, tried their hand in Ireland, with less success. Elizabeth made a fair fist of expanding their East coast settlements in the 16th ©. The … Continue reading →

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The Other Sceptr’d Isle I

Posted on July 26, 2021 by davidsberry

The Problem (Part 1 of 5) With all the fuss over the Euro Final and the discussion of racism that ensued, nobody much noticed an item of non-news, a dog that did not bark in the night-time: celebrations of the … Continue reading →

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There’s Nothing Surer…

Posted on July 14, 2021 by davidsberry

…the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer” runs the old song. Here are some stats to back up that equally old assertion. This blog is a lift of the series of a half-dozen tweets by Tosten Bell (@TostenBell) … Continue reading →

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Fort Sumter Revisited?

Posted on July 10, 2021 by davidsberry

One hundred and sixty years ago was a seminal date in American history. There had always been tension between states in the South and those in the North. Resentment among southern slave-owning states grew with increasing pressure from the more … Continue reading →

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