Why Ireland became republican...

Paul Rouse was/is superb throughout

The late Irish historian/archaeologist Liam DePaor wrote that Ireland only became nationalist and revolutionary for want of a Catholic monarch. The defeat of Charles Edward in 1746 was the turning point. "Jacobitism begat Jacobinism," he put it.

Good morning, Sydney

The more that comes out about what happened at Nova - a music festival - the more I wonder about the comprehension levels of people in this country who go to a music festival wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestine flags

and who speaks neither Arabic nor Hebrew and knows nothing of the ancient, medieval or modern history of the regionand mouths ignorant slogans about colonial settler state while actually living in one

TRANSLATION: We have handed the account back to its Iranian owners.