The UK Threatens The EU. And Then Claims The Beaches Of Donegal!
One gets the impression that Brexit Britain is like a wild animal caught in a steel trap, driven wild withContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Jeremy Corbyn Visits Belfast, The British Press Revives The Troubles
The hysterical reaction by a significant section of the news media in the United Kingdom to the forthcoming visit byContinue Reading
Political Correctness Debate, Featuring Stephen Fry, Jordan Peterson And Others
An interesting debate on the issue of “political correctness”, however one defines it, in popular culture, featuring among others theContinue Reading
The Dog-Whistle Rhetoric Of Brexit Britain Is Obsessed With Leo Varadkar
One of the more noxious effects associated with the rise of Brexitism in the United Kingdom has been the returnContinue Reading
John Waters Storms Off The Eamon Dunphy Podcast
The conservative journalist and occasional tantrum-artist John Waters makes a brief appearance on The Stand, Eamon Dunphy’s current affairs’ podcast,Continue Reading
The British Labour MP Kate Hoey Is Still Fighting The Troubles
The motivations behind the majority pro-leave result in the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum are complex, though there is aContinue Reading
The UK Offers Border Tracking Apps Instead Of A Border Poll To Ireland
One of the more caustic social media responses to the United Kingdom’s chaotic Brexit negotiations with the European Union hasContinue Reading
The Claire Byrne Live Show And American Anti-Choice Tactics Among The No Campaign
Judging by the apparent “swarming” of public meetings and events around the country by groups of anti-choice activists along with aContinue Reading
Rival Tory Factions Compete For Influence In Brexit Britain
If we are to believe the reports from the Irish and international press, it seems that Theresa May, the lacklustreContinue Reading
Inside Yiwu International Trade City, The World’s Largest Shopping Market
The Yiwu International Trade City is a sprawling wholesale market in China which has developed since the early 2000s into anContinue Reading
The Glenanne Gang: Britain’s Soldiers Turned Gunmen During The Troubles
The Glenanne Gang was a state-backed terrorist group which operated in the United Kingdom’s embattled legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
The DUP And Tories Demand An Amnesty For The British Army Death Squads
The Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert British Army unit which operated in the greater Belfast area duringContinue Reading
UK Ministers Demand General Amnesty For British Army War Crimes In Ireland
Around 5.00pm on Monday the 23rd of October 1972, thirty-one-year-old Michael Naan drove into his isolated farm in the townlandContinue Reading
Changing How We Teach Irish In Our Schools
I have some sympathy with those who argue that the teaching of Irish in our primary and secondary schools shouldContinue Reading
The Total Of Conflict-Related Deaths After 1998 And The End Of The Irish-British Troubles
Since the signing of the multiparty and intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, and up to December 2017, nearlyContinue Reading
Harold Bornstein And Rudy Giuliani Reveal Donald Trump’s Dirty Secrets
What an extraordinary few days it has been in the crazy world of Donald J Trump. First up, the businessContinue Reading
Alt-Right Generation Identity Brings Supervillain Kitsch To Its Defend Europe Mission In The Alps
Speaking of matters on the far-right, over the last couple of years the so-called Identitarian movement in Europe has provenContinue Reading
UUP Lord Kilclooney Attacks Leo Varadkar With “Typical Indian” Jibe
For over thirty years, the Monaghan-born politician John Taylor, who sits as Lord Kilclooney in the upper house of theContinue Reading
Video: Michelle Wolf At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The extraordinary reaction of the ideological right-wing in the United States to the 20 minute comedy routine of the formerContinue Reading
The DUP Deploys Alt-Right Rhetoric To Attack Dublin And Brussels
Earlier today, an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar used the latest session of the All-Island Civic Dialogue forum to strongly refute theContinue Reading
Donald Trump Launches Epic Tirade On The Fox And Friends Show
The sight and sound of the 45th President of the United States of America engaging in a thirty minute rantContinue Reading
Scottish Gaelic Is Not Dying, It Is Being Killed
There is a typically dire, fact-free article on the Scottish language (Scottish Gaelic) in today’s Herald newspaper, penned by theContinue Reading
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