Curling and dead drummers leave me cold
Even without AI, the internet revolution has placed vast amounts of factual material in an almost instantly accessible form to huge swathes of humanity. Researching articles for publication in newspapers and periodicals has ceased to be as painstaking or time-consuming as it once was. While it is easier to write an article that is fact-checked and […]
An independent Irish State was never a foregone conclusion. Nor is a united Ireland now
The creation of an independent Irish state in 1922 has turned out to be a good thing for the great majority of Irish people. While you may read about Irexit (and a small minority believes in it), no group of any significance now believes or argues that Ireland should re-join the UK. And while Irish […]
Ireland has a lot of skin in the game of international politics
A strange aspect of British politics these days is the reaction of the Tory controlled media to the emergence of Nigel Farage and his Reform party. Since he is peddling hard right and populist positions and stances, the Tory right finds it difficult to withhold sneaking regarder respect for his dominant opinion poll position. Tory […]
Irish people fail to understand how fragile our electricity supply is
When we read about Putin’s onslaught on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure designed, apparently, to freeze the Ukrainians into submission in the context of Trump-sponsored peace talks, we can only imagine what it is like to live in a world of blackouts amid ambient temperatures of -15 or -20 degrees centigrade. Interestingly both Sinn Fein and our […]
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. […]