The Brexit Empire And The Reuters’ Columnist John Lloyd
In a recent article for the press agency Reuters, the British commentator John Lloyd has poured scorn on the widelyContinue Reading
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The Burkean Journal
Speaking of right-wing media, The Burkean Journal is an interesting publication. Launched in the latter half of 2017, with fundingContinue Reading
Ireland’s New Right: Online And On-Message
Some readers in Ireland will be aware of theliberal.ie, an unashamedly populist “infotainment” website with ambitions of becoming a sortContinue Reading
The Bloody Language Of Brexit
Some interesting thoughts from the newspaper columnist Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times on the radical Brexit movement in theContinue Reading
300 Recruits, Riot Control Experts And 1000 British Police Officers For North Of Ireland
Back on December 19th when several newspapers in the United Kingdom reported that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)Continue Reading
The Confluence Of Ireland’s New Right?
Given the draconian nature of Irish libel laws, which inhibit the discussion of particularly controversial matters, one has to treadContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar: Soft On Vulture Funds, Soft On The Causes Of Vulture Funds
In many ways Leo Varadkar is the embodiment of modern right-wing politics in Ireland: socially liberal, economically conservative. While weContinue Reading
UK Minister: New Overseas Bases Will Make Britain A Global Military Player
When civil servants in the United Kingdom first started referring to the country’s post-Brexit economic strategy as the “Empire 2.0”Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia Hires Child-Soldiers From War-Torn Sudan For Yemen Campaign
The use of foreign-born recruits or mercenaries for combat operations by the military and paramilitary forces of the Gulf States hasContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar: Wealthier Counties Should Keep Their Own Local Property Taxes
Does Leo Varadkar not understand the basis of the country’s general taxation system? Of how progressive taxation and fiscal redistributionContinue Reading
The British Press Has Been Promoting Conspiracy Theorist David Icke Since 2016
In recent days the acclaimed American writer Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, has become embroiled in accusations ofContinue Reading
TRT World: Ireland’s Brexit Trouble
The Turkish news channel, TRT World, has published a short documentary on YouTube presented by the South African-born journalist andContinue Reading
The British Far-Right: Made In The Establishment UK
The last decade has witnessed something of a sea-change in the perception of internet media and publishing by journalists andContinue Reading
The Arrest And Intimidation Of Journalists Investigating Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
Just after 10 pm on Saturday the 18th of June 1994, two men wearing boiler suits and balaclavas entered the Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down,Continue Reading
Former Tory Minister: The Irish Really Should Know Their Place
On the British reaction to the Irish insistence that Britain’s proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union must includeContinue Reading
UKIP’s Brexit Betrayal March In London, A Far-Right Rally By Any Other Name
The organisers of Sunday’s so-called Brexit Betrayal March in London, chiefly the ultra-nationalist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), were expectingContinue Reading
Tory MP Priti Patel: UK Should Use Threat Of Food Shortages To Pressure Ireland
Priti Patel, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for International Development, has urged London to use the threat ofContinue Reading
Brexit Brits Couldn’t Organise A Piss-up In A Brewery
Watching from afar, one is left with the impression that the ongoing Brexit debate in London has taken on someContinue Reading
Tony Parsons And Brexit’s No Surrender Paranoia
Yet another example of the deranged thinking, the paranoia and suspicion, the chauvinism and supremacism, fuelling the war-obsessed Brexit movementContinue Reading
No Man’s Land. News Footage From The UK’s Former Hard Border In Ireland
With a significant number of anti-agreement politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom continuing to dismiss the risk of aContinue Reading
David McWilliams: There Is Little Doubt That The Republic’s Economy Could Absorb The North
In relation to the inadvertent political consequences of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, the Irish economist and authorContinue Reading
A No-Deal Brexit For Britain: Chaos, Recession And Armed Border Police
The Brexit debacle in the United Kingdom continues apace, with Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, admitting on WednesdayContinue Reading
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