Boris Johnson Moves From Dismissing A Hard Border In Ireland To Threatening It
One has to wonder if Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s tone-deaf Foreign Secretary, realised what he was implying when heContinue Reading
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Netflick’s Altered Carbon, A Watchable If Derivative Cyberpunk Noir
It’s somewhat ironic that the basic premise of Netflick’s futuristic mystery-drama, Altered Carbon, hangs on the idea of human mindsContinue Reading
Dana Loesch Illustrates The Duplicity Of The NRA And The US Gun Lobby
Speaking of ideological lunacy, Dana Loesch, the hard-right commentator and disingenuous spokesperson for the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the UnitedContinue Reading
The Brexit Fantasists Long For The UK’s Hegemony Over All Of Ireland
A perfect example of the delusional thinking gripping the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom can be found in thisContinue Reading
Nelson McCausland And The Conspiracy To Decolonise Ireland
Nelson McCausland, the former MLA with the Democratic Unionist Party, has taken to the pages of the pro-union Belfast TelegraphContinue Reading
Desperate Brexiteers Attack The Good Friday Agreement
Many commentators are expressing surprise and dismay that a number of Brexit-supporting politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom areContinue Reading
Whether Irish Rights Or Gay Rights, No Equality, No Stormont.
Thanks to the Trojan work of the veteran journalists Eamonn Mallie and Brian Rowan, we now know the sequence ofContinue Reading
Unseen Women: Stories from Armagh Gaol
In 2006-07, the Prisons’ Memory Archive recorded former political prisoners, staff, teachers, chaplains and lawyers as they walked around theContinue Reading
The Cured, A New Zombie Movie Set In Ireland
I’m not a great fan of the zombie sub-genre, whether on television or in the cinema. That said, I didContinue Reading
Russian Mercenaries Suffer Losses In Syria, As US And Russia Clashes
The latest reports of Russian casualties in the Syrian war serve to underline the international character of the conflict. ItContinue Reading
Unionist Opposition To Irish Is Base Colonialism. Stop Pretending Otherwise
Since the United Kingdom’s violent imposition of partition in the early 1920s, the pro-union leaders of the Six Counties haveContinue Reading
Spiked Magazine Gets It Wrong On Brexit And Ireland
The origins of the internet magazine, Spiked, lie in the demise of the United Kingdom’s controversial – and latterly, oddballContinue Reading
When It Comes To Irish Equality, The DUP Is The Putrid Little Statelet
To her many critics, this afternoon’s statement by Arlene Foster provided further proof of her failings as a political leader,Continue Reading
The Stormont Talks Failure. Britain Swaps EU Rule For DUP Rule?
She came, she saw, she fucked off home. That summed up yesterday’s visit by Theresa May, the United Kingdom’s crisis-proneContinue Reading
Newsweek Magazine Rocked By Raids And Sackings
There is an old journalistic adage: you are not the story. Unfortunately, in recent years the financial woes of Newsweek, a near-century oldContinue Reading
Europe Lays Down The Law To Britain Over Future Peace And Prosperity In Ireland
It seems that the patience of the European Union with the prevarications of the United Kingdom over the post-Brexit futureContinue Reading
Extra.ie, The Daily Mail Offshoot In Ireland No One Has Heard Of
It’s been a year since the flashy Buzzfeed-style website, Extra.ie, was launched on the internet market in Ireland by DMG Media,Continue Reading
The Atlantic Magazine Ends Online Comments In A Retrograde Step
On the 2nd of February the American current affairs website, The Atlantic, announced that it was closing down its Disqus-basedContinue Reading
The Public Services Card Has Cost €60 Million And Saved Less Than €2 Million
The Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which was established in the Oireachtas late last year, has held itsContinue Reading
DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr. Urges No Surrender To The EU In The UK Parliament
For over a century the rallying cry of “No Surrender!” has been a feature of British separatist politics and violenceContinue Reading
Dr Who Review, A History Of The Show
I’m not a huge devotee of the long-running British television science-fiction series, Doctor Who, but I have great degree ofContinue Reading
London’s Brexit Chaos Will Create A “Cold Split” Between The UK And The EU
It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that whatever agreements are made between now and the 29th of March 2019, theContinue Reading
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