The Role Of Cavalry In Medieval Warfare
Interesting article from the Swiss researcher Jack Gassman examining the role played by cavalry troops in Medieval warfare, using primary and secondaryContinue Reading
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A Press Report From Trump’s Washington, Sorry, Hitler’s Berlin, 1933
Popular comparisons between the presidency of Donald J Trump in the United States and the premiership of Adolf Hitler inContinue Reading
The Socialist Party, Anti-Austerity Alliance, The Confederation Of The British Isles
Since I had a slightly tongue-in-cheek poke at the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Trotskyist grouping behind the People BeforeContinue Reading
The People Before Profit Alliance. Made In Britain?
The Ireland correspondent of the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Henry McDonald, writing in today’s edition on the Stormont assembly election inContinue Reading
Armed Drones Of The Islamic State In Syria And Iraq
The open-source analysis site, Bellingcat, has published a detailed article on the use of improvised armed drones by the Islamic State (IS) inContinue Reading
DUP Laundered Brexit Money For Mysterious Constitutional Research Council
After much speculation, the controversy embroiled Democrat Unionist Party (DUP) has finally come clean and named the British lobby group itContinue Reading
Forty Years Of 2000 AD
The seminal British sci-fi and fantasy comic, 2000 AD, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week so I thought I’dContinue Reading
Why Did Odysseus Leave Calypso?
I’ve long been fascinated by the legends and histories associated with the ancient city of Troy, the focus of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey asContinue Reading
Limited Use Of The Welsh Language Will Be “Allowed” In The British Parliament
Over the last twenty years the political terminology of the United Kingdom of Great Britain has undergone a subtle butContinue Reading
The War On Terror Has Simply Generated More Terror
From the excellent TomDispatch, this analysis of the so-called “War on Terror” in the Middle East by the United StatesContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar And The Irish Independent’s Prurient Tabloid Journalism
As citizens and voters, do you need to know if your politicians are married or in a relationship? Do you need to knowContinue Reading
The Alliance Party Using Facebook To Sockpuppet The News Media
The greatest political challenge for the pro-union Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is one of identity. Ostensibly it is a British unionist grouping, albeit withContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP Deploy Donald Trump Tactics For The Stormont Election
It seems that Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has adopted the electoral playbook of Donald Trump,Continue Reading
Is Donald Trump Being Challenged By The Deep State In The US?
The term “deep state” is often used to describe the core historical institutions of a nation state, especially when they are knownContinue Reading
Trump’s Press Conference Turns The White House Into Caesars Palace
If you’re a politics’ junkie like me you’ve probably already watched the main highlights of yesterday’s extraordinary White House press conferenceContinue Reading
Enda Kenny, A Taoiseach On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
So Enda Kenny’s premiership has survived for another day following last night’s unsuccessful vote in Dáil Éireann on the proposed motion of no confidence inContinue Reading
Crannóg, The Island Lake Dwelling Of Celtic And Medieval Ireland
In simple terms, a crannóg is an artificial island of variable size and height, roughly circular or oval in shape,Continue Reading
Donald Trump Finds His Minister Of Public Enlightenment And Propaganda
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the United States president, takes to the Sunday morning television shows in the USContinue Reading
The Maurice McCabe Whistleblower Scandal
The latest scandal blowing through the ranks of an Garda Síochána, and through the “state” more generally, will be familiar enough to regular readersContinue Reading
The Ballad Of Halo Jones, An Ian Gibson Interview
My earliest exposure to comic books came through the pages of the British weekly, 2000 AD, an imported publication which I began toContinue Reading
The Irish Language Finds A Cold Home In The Irish Parliament And State
While we are certainly right to decry the inherent hibernophobia of mainstream political unionism in Ireland, not to mention the UnitedContinue Reading
The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
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