Rodwell, whose standards of journalism are almost as low as Noel Harris, the sticky boss at RTE, is running a one-man black propaganda campaign against the entire Catholic population in the North with the permission of his London bosses, in an incredible and desperate attempt to keep the Guardian-reading British middle class in favour of the Union.

Central to Rodwell's policy is the ploy of always blaming Republicans for acts of Loyalist or Unionist terror.

For example, as the dogs on the streets of Belfast know, never mind the Brit hacks in the bar of the Europa, for the last few years the different Loyalists murder gangs have being running a terrorist campaign against the population of the tiny Catholic enclave of Short Strand in East Belfast.

But when John McKeague, the boss of the Red Hand Commandos, who many suspect was the guiding hand behind this murder campaign was shot dead, Rodwell gave his readers as the only explanation for the killing a quote from Paisley's deputy Peter Robinson claiming that McKeague had been campaigning for "better protection for the loyalists in the area".

This had "brought the wrath of the IRA on Mr. McKeague's head," Rodwell, without comment, reported Robinson as saying.

Nowhere in a ion. piece did Rodwell even hint that the victims of the only murder campaign in the area were Catholics.

But Rodwell went even further than just reporting the Robinson's Orwellian quote without comment.

For Rodwell further informs his British readers that: "In 1974 Republican terrorists firebombed McKeague's other shop end his bedridden mother was burned to death."

In fact at the time of Mrs. McKeague's terrible death even the RUC and McKeague made it clear that the firebombers were Loyalists. The files of the Guardian shows this to be the case.

But Rodwell's is the standard of journalism that the Guardian which has changed from parlour-pink to bright Orange in its reporting of the Irish War, is forced to depending on rather than rid; hiring another John O'Callaghan, who might tell the truth about the war.

In fairness to Rodwell, who once worked for Roy Mason's Office in its attempts to promote the Six-Co. police state by getting the National Union of Journalists to hold its AGM in the North, he has never made any secret of his political allegiance.

At the NUJ conference in Portrush he was one of a gang who erected a huge banner across the hall calling on delegates to support the security forces.

And as any Loyal Protestant knows McKeague, Robinson, the Red Hand Commandos, TARA, the UDA, the UVF are part of the security forces.

They're just not in uniform, that's all.