Do we have to watch this chainsaw-massacre political horror movie to its end?
From the gaudy gold-leafed Oval Office – the centre of international squalor in diplomacy – Donald Trump, the idiot king, pronounced the American equivalent of a fatwa. Directed at the equally loathsome leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it warned against the execution of any opposition political figures involved in massive street protests which occurred over […]
The worse Trump behaves, the more room there is for optimism
What is it about the Americans who have inflicted Donald Trump on themselves and their fellow citizens as president? It can’t just be that the Democrats have consistently fielded weak and unappealing candidates for the job. Why the Democrats do that is another story altogether. But Trump – the idiot king – emerged as the candidate of the Republican Party. […]
The ground is increasingly fertile for an Irish Maga
“America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European Continent – and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former […]
It’s worth asking again why Sinn Féin sent a delegation to Maduro’s inauguration
Listening to a backbench Tory in the House of Commons arguing in the case of the armed abduction of Nicolás Maduro that “the end justifies the means”, I was reminded of a saying more fashionable in my childhood: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” As I wrote on December 17th, the recent US national security strategy ought to be read by […]
Is the Wood Quay monstrosity finally going to be demolished?
Dublin City Council is reported to be about to buy into the semi-developed Camden Yard building site on Upper Kevin Street in Dublin. Other reports suggest it could relocate there from its ghastly campus on Wood Quay, and that new civic offices would be built on the Camden Yard site, along with 300 public homes. This news might […]
Should the super rich get to opt out of paying taxes in the country that enriched them?
Every so often, we read reports concerning the distribution of wealth among private individuals, nationally and globally. These reports often show that a tiny proportion of the population appears to own and control a massively disproportionate fraction of the wealth of our State, and sometimes it appears that this imbalance is worsening at the expense of […]