Atten-shun! Your country needs you. General Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the British Army, has called this week for the general public to be placed on a war footing and ready to deploy in the event of Mr Putin setting his sights on further Western expansion.
On Thursday this week even the big revolving door at the main entrance to the Royal Victoria Hospital was on strike. I tried it a couple of times. No go. Maybe it’s a bit too whimsical to think that, in support of staff taking industrial action on the day, it had come out (or shut down) in sympathy. Maybe…
Good question of the week comes from former Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt. “Why do we still have paramilitaries?” Answer: they are a protected species.
Of all the irritants in Belfast city centre, the loudest and the most annoying have to be the many, moany street preachers whose efforts at promoting the Biblical message (as they would see it) are undermined by woeful delivery and dodgy sound systems.
I recall a television skit back in the mid-80s where a granny is asked by a small child something along the lines of: “Do you think, Granny, that a man could ever become Prime Minister?”