John McGuirk

Conservative. Nationalist. Likes Cake.

Stating the obvious

With more than a little wit:

Semper Fi.

Re-invigourating the Right

It’s not really ok, I accept, to have a good hard slap at the left, as I do directly below this post, and not to acknowledge the disgraceful weakness of the right in this country. For all the meetings and conferences and discussions and fora I’ve attended over the years with the aim of giving an intellectual [...]

New lefty dream: A “Progressive” majority

There is nothing our good friends on the left do better than giving the same old ideas they’ve always had new and cooler-sounding names. Once upon a time, they were communists. The Soviets and the Chinese managed to give Communism a dodgy rep, so they became socialists. Then socialist ideas went out of fashion and [...]

My Glasses have blinded me to truth

My friends, little did I know that all those years ago when my mother walked me into Ronaghan’s opticians in Monaghan town that I would be fitted only with a blindfold, condemned forever to see the world in two dimensions. My black and white view of our planet has obscured me to truth and justice. [...]