Time for the West to atone for the damage it has caused in Syria
As the siege of Aleppo enters its final stages, and the reins of power in Washington are transferred to Trump, it is very likely that the Syrian conflict will result in Bashar Al Assad remaining President of the Syrian state under some negotiated “peace” deal at some point in the future. Western opinion has not […]
Renzi’s reckless promises sealed his fate
Whatever the outcomes in today’s Italian referendum and the Austrian election for president, there is a sense of restlessness and unease abroad in the western democracies. It can be argued that the Italian referendum is not of any inherent international significance save for the fact that Matteo Renzi, the master of silly political gestures, indicated […]
Gerry Adams’ post-factual parallel universe
The phrase “living in a parallel universe” is often used to describe the mind-set of people who inhabit a different moral space from most people and have created their own moral and factual order. This week it has been used about Gerry Adams as he wriggles and twists in an attempt to reconcile his membership […]
Mary Robinson’s Presidential Library and her legacy
Is this Groundhog Day for the “new politics”? Today’s Sunday Business Post Red-C poll confirms my thesis that Irish politics have become stuck in a depressing rut of under-performance and futility. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil each enjoy the support of just a quarter of the jaded, cynical electorate. Neither of them has any fundamental […]
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The politics of paralysis and where we might go from here
With every change within the margin of error, today’s Red –C poll appears to be “business as usual”. But the problem is that business is not at all usual. Today’s slight flicker in poll ratings has happened in the context of continuing uncertainty about Brexit, and of the Apple €13bn controversy, and of the NAMA […]