Sendero Luminoso, Peru’s Shining Path Movement
Back in the day I’d occasionally find myself in the kitchen of a student house-party ambushed by a killjoy MaoistContinue Reading
Category: Politics
The Continuity State Speaks. Forget Golfgate. Fear The Shinners!
The journalist John Lee has taken to the tabloid website Extra.ie to admonish Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar and Eamon RyanContinue Reading
The Oireachtas Golf Society: The Golden Circle At Play
What on earth was going through the minds of the eighty-plus former and serving politicians, public officials, members of theContinue Reading
RIP Michael Brooks
Just a quick post to note the premature passing of Michael Brooks, the political podcaster and online commentator, and oneContinue Reading
The Guardian, Champion Of The Identity Class Not The Working Class?
An interesting blog post here on the announcement by Britain’s Guardian newspaper that it is to reduce its staff byContinue Reading
Confusion Over Barry Cowen’s Sacking Highlights Coalition Weaknesses
Last week Sinn Féin decided to celebrate its long-awaited assumption of the leadership of the post-election Opposition in Dáil ÉireannContinue Reading
Bobby Storey, Paddy Holohan And Sinn Féin’s Very Bad Week In Opposition
This week should have seen Sinn Féin in the sunny uplit lands of opposition, to borrow a phrase from UKContinue Reading
Covid-19 Has Killed More British People Than The Blitz In World War II
Between the United Kingdom’s declaration of war on the German Reich in September 1939 and the latter’s capitulation in MayContinue Reading
The Attacks On Australian Greens Politician Lidia Thorpe By The Australian Press
Australia’s version of the Daily Mail, which is every bit as reactionary as its counterpart in Britain, has published aContinue Reading
The Hidden Hand: Official Sinn Féin – The Workers Party And Irish Journalism
Village Magazine, which has gained a reputation over the last few years for shining a light on some of theContinue Reading
The Proposed Coalition: Fianna Fáil Dissent, Fine Gael Smugness, Green Party Unease And Russian Bots
Are the wheels about to come off the new multiparty coalition government before it can even trundle out of theContinue Reading
Has Electoral Success Broken The Green Party?
It seems that the Green Party is going through some of the same growing pains that effected Sinn Féin inContinue Reading
Ending The Lockdown In Ireland. Too Fast, Too Soon?
Though the Fine Gael-led Government seems determined to speed up the country’s transition through the various stages of the lockdownContinue Reading
The Ulsterisation Of Politics In The United States
While I’m old enough to remember other outbreaks of civil unrest in the United States, notably the Los Angeles riotsContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Lockdown: Picnics In The Phoenix Park, Accommodation In The Farmleigh Estate
While it would be unfair to place Leo Varadkar’s “picnic controversy” in the same scandalous category as that of DominicContinue Reading
Donald Trump Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine, An Unproven Covid-19 Treatment
Strongmen and their doctors. Throughout human history there have been innumerable cases of autocratic leaders whose whims and obsessions haveContinue Reading
Piers Morgan Highlights The Utter Chaos Of The UK’s Covid-19 Response
While the journalist and television presenter Piers Morgan has known no end of controversies and scandal in his long mediaContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s “Food Parcels” Jibe At Mary Lou McDonald Backfires. Bigly!
Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, theContinue Reading
The Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Green Party Thruple
Can we hear the awkward movements of a ménage à trois between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green PartyContinue Reading
Joe Biden And The Tara Reade Assault Allegations
Are the wheels starting to come off the Joe Biden campaign? Up to this week it seemed certain that theContinue Reading
UK Drags Out Talks With EU While Demanding Access To EU Systems
An interesting report from Bloomberg News on the more strident tone that has been adopted by the United Kingdom inContinue Reading
How Fake News And Fake Facts Are Being Used To Undermine The Lockdown
With some business leaders beginning to push for a premature end to the Covid-19 lockdown across the country, and withContinue Reading
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