Donald Trump Ignores Offered Hand Shake With Angela Merkel In The White House
Donald J Trump, the president of the United States of America refuses to shake hands with Angela Merkel, chancellor of the FederalContinue Reading
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Saint Patrick’s Day Belongs To The Global Irish, Past And Present
On this Saint Patrick’s Day, that most American of Irish festivals, I don’t think I can surpass the thoughts andContinue Reading
Prime Minister Theresa May Supports Clandestine Amnesty For War Crimes In Ireland
In an unprecedented move the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, has launched a stinging attack on law officials who areContinue Reading
The Real Cost Of Irish Language Act In The North Would Be £2 Million A Year
Conradh na Gaeilge, the prestigious Irish language advocacy organisation, has released a series of legislative proposals it believes will bring greater linguisticContinue Reading
Initially, A United Ireland Would Be Neither Federal Or Confederal
As the Irish Times has noted, talk of a reunited Ireland is very much in the air. This is reflected inContinue Reading
Early 2017 Polls Are Trending Fianna Fáil And Sinn Féin
There is a lot of unwarranted scepticism about the effectiveness of electoral polling at the moment. Observers point to supposedly “unexpected” resultsContinue Reading
The Socialist Party Rebrands Its AAA Front Organisation As Solidarity
The Revolutionary Socialist League began as a small breakaway body of Trotskyist intellectuals closely associated with the Labour Party in Britain duringContinue Reading
Wikileaks Reveals Vault 7, A Compendium Of CIA Spying Technologies
Following the latest round of revelations from Wikileaks on the extraordinary surveillance capabilities of the US and UK intelligence services,Continue Reading
Melanie Philips And The Revanchist Politics Of Brexit Britain
The supremacist nature of British, or rather, Greater English nationalism is summed up in this extract from a series of oddly contradictory and counterfactualContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP Strikes Back With Demands For A Pan-Unionist Axis
Given the poor overall result for unionism in the regional election to the assembly at Stormont, many commentators expected Arlene Foster, the troubledContinue Reading
#AE17 Northern Assembly Election Results
Still early in the count, lots of transfers and recounts to go, but so far the overall vote has increasedContinue Reading
On The Issue Of Abortion In Ireland, You Cannot Be Both Pro-Choice And Anti-Choice
Perhaps it is my analytical mind, a beneficial side-effect of a career in the IT industry, but for me the question ofContinue Reading
Donald Trump Acts Presidential In Reset Change Of Tone. Not!
Donald Trump’s unorthodox style of presidency continues to defy the expectations of the press in the United States as the newContinue Reading
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
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
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