Neill Blomkamp, Oats Studios’ Sci-Fi Short Films
The South African movie director and screenwriter Neill Blomkamp, the man behind the excellent science-fiction parable District 9 and theContinue Reading
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What Links The DUP And Milo Yiannopoulos? The Alt-Right, Of Course
I think it’s fair to describe the “alternative-right” as something of an amorphous political movement. While it has a philosophicalContinue Reading
George A. Romero And Knightriders, A Unique Vision Of A Unique Director
The passing of the director-producer George A. Romero has led to a wave of retrospective articles on the one-time doyenContinue Reading
Michael Collins And The Oaths To The Irish Republic And The Irish Free State
Judging by the emails and messages I’m still receiving, my article at the start of the month criticising the supposedlyContinue Reading
The Unionist Argument Against The Irish Language Is A Colonial One
At the weekend I was interviewed by a metropolitan American journalist doing some background research into Brexit and the possibleContinue Reading
EU Negotiator Calls For Northern MEPs To Be Added To Ireland’s Representation
Guy Verhofstadt, the chief Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament, has suggested that the number of MEPs representing Ireland shouldContinue Reading
The DUP, AggregateIQ And Data Mining For The Alt-Right And Far-Right
With the press and news media focusing on the Russian Federation’s alleged contribution to the election of Donald Trump toContinue Reading
Welsh Medium Educated Is Boosted While Irish Medium Education Is Blocked
The percentage of children educated through the medium of the Irish language in primary schools across Ireland, excluding the SixContinue Reading
Catherine Kelly, Regina Doherty And Online Free Speech In Ireland
Some participants in the liberal or progressive Twittersphere in Ireland might be familiar with @sanepolitico, the username of Catherine Kelly,Continue Reading
Sabotage, A Beastie Boys And Sesame Street Mashup
Big Bird meets the Beastie Boys in a mashup of the 1985 Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird and Spike Jonze’s legendary 1994 music video, Sabotage.Continue Reading
With The Tories In Their Pockets, The DUP Reject Equality And Progress
Search for the word “reactionary” on Google and the search engine gives you a rather handy definition: “Opposing political orContinue Reading
The Unconstitutional Pro-Treaty Faction Of The Irish Civil War
By the start of June of 1922, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Richard Mulcahy had established themselves as the chiefContinue Reading
The Constitutional Research Council, Backing The DUP And The Tory Right
Among the many things linking the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom and the far-right Democratic Unionist Party in theContinue Reading
The Morning Joe Team Respond To Donald Trump’s Twitter Storm
The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe cable news show, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezierinski, have responded to Donald Trump’s flurry ofContinue Reading
Donald Trump Turns On The Morning Joe Duo
In the run-up to last November’s presidential election in the United States, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts ofContinue Reading
The INLA Volley At The Funeral Of IRSP Member Barry McMullan
While Sinn Féin has gone to great lengths over the last decade to move away from its armed revolutionary past,Continue Reading
Republican Activists Quit The Belfast Branch Of Saoradh
Well that didn’t take long. Saoradh, the Irish republican party formed last September, has experienced its first serious split withContinue Reading
The Tory Deal With The Extremist DUP Was To Prevent A “Reversion To The Troubles”?
Michael Fallon, the accident-prone secretary of state for defence in the United Kingdom, has produced a decidedly odd explanation forContinue Reading
Sargon Of Akkad, Anita Sarkeesian And Culture War Politics On YouTube
I find the phenomenon of vlogging, that is internet video blogging, a fascinating one. It takes a certain type ofContinue Reading
The New Conservative Party And DUP Backdoor Coalition In The UK
So that’s it. Following its electoral humiliation earlier this month the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom has givenContinue Reading
The DUP And Its Potential Deal With The Tories: It’s The Border, Stupid!
Journalists are just as susceptible to “fake news” as anyone else, especially when the news chimes with their own beliefsContinue Reading
The DUP Turns The Screws On The Tories, While Demanding Respect From The UK
During the corruption scandal which finally brought down the power-sharing executive at Stormont in late 2016, early 2017, the DemocraticContinue Reading
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