Irish News, Politics, Culture
When it comes to politics, I’m pretty much your typical centre-left, social-democratic, wishy-washy, and occasionally hypocritical, bleeding heart liberal. IContinue Reading
Two weeks ago the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland published details of an investigation into the activities of the InstituteContinue Reading
Yesterday’s claim by John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer for the British Labour Party, that he longs for a reunitedContinue Reading
If the assessment of the press in Britain is correct, Theresa May seems to have brought her tottering government toContinue Reading
The hysterical reaction by a significant section of the news media in the United Kingdom to the forthcoming visit byContinue Reading
If anything encapsulates the political insanity gripping the United Kingdom, surely it must be the sight of the reactionary LabourContinue Reading
One of the lesser reported aspects of the Irish Republican Army’s former military campaign in the United Kingdom is the low-levelContinue Reading
And the people of Ireland wish we could say the same of Theresa May and her wretched fundamentalist-appeasing Conservative PartyContinue Reading
Irish and British political commentators are already warning of unintended consequences stemming from the backdoor-coalition deal between the Conservative PartyContinue Reading
There is an old joke from the UK-administered north-east of Ireland, one that has a great deal of truth behind it. DuringContinue Reading
With the United Kingdom’s right-wing press whipping itself up into a frenzy over the alleged sympathy of Labour Party leaderContinue Reading
Just a few quick points on last week’s local elections in the United Kingdom and the continuing post-referendum shift inContinue Reading
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
The left-wing British politician, Jeremy Corbyn, recently gave Vice News behind the scenes access to his embattled leadership of the UK LabourContinue Reading
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sentContinue Reading
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Given the willingness of Andy Burnham, one of several über-ambitious pols contesting the leadership of the British Labour Party, to destabilise the finely balanced peace in theContinue Reading
For the last four decades the Irish and British Labour parties have declined to formally or fully establish local branches or stand candidates for electionContinue Reading
Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing its teeth at the thoughts of left-wing MP, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
