Renegade Cut: Rambo – Hollywood Vietnam
Another excellent video essay from the pop-culture commentator Leon Thomas of the YouTube channel Renegade Cut examining how American cinemaContinue Reading
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Krystal Ball And Saagar Enjeti Discuss The New Left And Right
The Hudson Institute, a right-wing think tank in the United States, has published an interesting podcast with Krystal Ball andContinue Reading
Noraly Schoenmaker Or Itchy Boots, The YouTube Adventurer
Despite growing out of my obsession with motorbikes some years ago, I still have a great interest in bikes andContinue Reading
Breaking The Golden Circle Is What FF and FG Fear The Most
So what’s next in Irish politics following the unexpected outcome of Saturday’s general election? Sinn Féin has recorded a significantContinue Reading
ASF Vote In General Election 2020
As is now a tradition on ASF, here is the order of votes that I cast in today’s general election:Continue Reading
Poll: Sinn Féin 25%, Fianna Fáil 22%, Fine Gael 17%, Greens 9%
I’d treat this with caution until we get the details but a poll commissioned by Sinn Féin through the well-knownContinue Reading
The General Election Polls: They’re All About Change
A recent episode of the David McWilliams’ Podcast examining some of the startling results in the latest general election polls.Continue Reading
Sinn Féin Tops Latest Irish Times Poll As Fianna Fáil Trails Behind
It’s often claimed that the UK leader Harold Wilson was the first one to make the observation that “a weekContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And Fianna Fáil Top The Latest Polls
While all the usual caveats apply, with high polling results for Sinn Féin rarely translating into equally high voting comeContinue Reading
The Day Brexit Britain Leaves The EU
There is a short scene in the acclaimed British political satire The Thick Of It where the lead character ofContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Jumps In New Polls, Fine Gael Suggests Grand Coalition With Fianna Fáil
If Sinn Féin went into the general election with the widespread belief that it was going to suffer serious lossesContinue Reading
1996 Documentary: Dublin’s Rampant Drug Problem
From a 1996 current affairs feature by ABC News in Australia, a reminder of the relatively short period in IrishContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Surge In Latest Poll As Fine Gael Plummets
If the first opinion poll of the general election had a question mark or two about its methodologies, the resultsContinue Reading
The Murder Of Keane Mulready-Woods. We Tolerated This
Reading about the life and death of Keane Mulready-Woods following his childhood recruitment by criminal grooming gangs in Drogheda, CountyContinue Reading
Fine Gael And Sinn Féin Jostle For Second Place In New Poll?
In recent years I’ve tended to treat many of the more headline-making figures from polling by the Sunday Times/Behaviour &Continue Reading
The US Assassination Of Qasem Soleimani In Baghdad
There is a well-observed episode of the American television series The West Wing where the character of President Josiah Bartlet,Continue Reading
Fine Gael Government To Honour The Black And Tans And Auxies In State Ceremony?
I’m very much in two minds about the announcement of an official state ceremony to be held in Dublin CastleContinue Reading
The Weak Arguments Against A United Ireland
Given recent events in the United Kingdom, with Brexit representing a glorified if long delayed sulk by the British atContinue Reading
Michael Moore On The Useful Idiots Podcast
This first part of an interview by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper of the Useful Idiots podcast with the AmericanContinue Reading
Post-Election UK Returns To No-Deal Brexit Threats
Here we go again! From the New York Times: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the prospect of aContinue Reading
The Right-Wing Of UK Labour Wants To Out-Tory The Tories
With the formerly sidelined neo-liberal contingent of the Westminster Labour Party now moving to prevent the selection of a left-wingContinue Reading
That Tory Victory And Labour Defeat In The UK General Election
Many explanations have been offered for the humiliating defeat of the Labour Party in the UK general election but perhapsContinue Reading
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