It may prove to be a good time to be in opposition given the economic uncertainty, broken general election promises on the part of the Government, a growing anger over political mismanagement and a sense that three terms in office has made Fianna Fáil insufferably arrogant.

OFF to Bali the week after next? Me neither. Truth is, I wasn’t invited. Nor do I suspect were very many other people invited who don’t subscribe to the climate change “consensus”. (How can you have a consensus that people don’t go along with?)

But Pakistan is about more than curry and cricket.

ALL newspaper columnists face the same dilemma: how much of ourselves should go into an article? Should we select a topic, adopt a lofty tone, present the arguments, and come to some clever conclusion by weighing up the evidence? Or should we just say, “This is what I believe”?

Adams says the perpetrators of the Quinn murder are criminals and everyone should cooperate with the PSNI.

THEY cannot all be right. Last week, European heads of government rubber-stamped a new EU treaty almost identical to the constitution rejected two years ago by the French and the Dutch.

DO YOU find watching the news depressing? I completely understand. What with Al Gore telling us that we face a “planetary emergency” and the British government claiming obesity presents an even bigger challenge, not to mention the serial warnings that we are all going to be blown up by Islamist terrorists, if cancer doesn’t kill us beforehand.

IF you have been to see Hollywood’s latest blockbuster, The Kingdom, and came away just a little bit confused, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. When was the last time you went to see a movie that portrays the Americans as the good guys, on the winning side?

In truth, the former chancellor’s depressed share price before he assumed the keys to No 10 was hugely to his advantage.

IN THE concluding sentence of his magisterial new history of Ireland from the French revolution to the present day, Professor Paul Bew wonders if, “as ethnic rage gives way to ethnic vanity, is it really possible that the enmities of Irish history are losing their power to hurt and destroy”?