And the madness continues

In March I posted that Celtic manager Neil Lennon was Living under intolerable pressure.

This morning brings the frankly unbelievable news that mail bombs have been sent to Lennon, Paul McBride QC (a lawyer used by Celtic FC and Lennon), and Labour politician Trish Godman (a Celtic fan). The story is all over the British media but here's just one link from the BBC.

It's probably worth remembering that Lennon stopped playing for his country because of death threats. He has had several death threats since and has been attacked in the street in Glasgow. In January this year he had bullets sent to him in the post - as did two other Celtic players (both Catholics from the bastard statelet of Northern Ireland).

Why is this happening? Because he is an uppity taig, a fenian who doesn't know his place and challenges the establishment that's why.

It's enough to make you despair.

Jesuit parachutists dressed as nuns

The inimitable Gerald Warner has his own take on the FCO memo debacle on The Telegraph blogs site.

Here is a taster:

As mosques, sometimes hosts to militant jihadists, rear their minarets in British cities, the native population is still fearfully scanning the skies for Jesuit parachutists dressed as nuns with snow on their boots. “Sink me the ship, master gunner… Fall into the hands of God/Not into the hands of Spain.” Zzzzz… The infantilism of the anti-Catholic myth, once an Anglican prejudice, persists today in the agenda of secularists. That was the real point behind the Foreign Office document – not the immediate offence, but the mindset it betrayed.

 The whole article is here and it's worth a read.