U.K. Election 2019 – Optimism, Despair and the Fingerprints of Steve Bannon
Long Term Patterns: the U.K. Prefers Oxford University-Educated Conservative Prime Ministers. Only Winston Churchill, and…
Frank Armstrong graduated with a BA (International) from UCD majoring in history, during which time he spent a year at the University of Amsterdam on an Erasmus scholarship. He later earned a barrister-at-law degree at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, and gained a Masters in Islamic Societies and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, before taking a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education. Prior to setting up Cassandra Voices his writing was published in the Irish Times, the London Magazine, the Dublin Review of Books, Village Magazine, and the Law Society Gazette, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of Cassandra Voices.
Long Term Patterns: the U.K. Prefers Oxford University-Educated Conservative Prime Ministers. Only Winston Churchill, and…
The Irish media generally looks askance at Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘radical socialist manifesto.’[i] An historically warm…
For anyone to become an opinion writer for the ‘paper of record’, the Irish Times,…
In 2015 comic Frankie Boyle penned a darkly titled article ‘What if David Cameron…
https://soundcloud.com/frank-armstrong-649911741/the-doomsday-machines-ii-recording-1-2020-01-09-t01-29-51pm-frankarmstrong Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film ‘Dr Strangelove’ dramatizes the still not-altogether-remote scenario of Mutually Assured…
As the United Kingdom inches perilously closer to a ‘no deal’ Brexit, Frank Armstrong recalls…
A few months after the destruction of the World Trade Centre in New York on…
Following a global trend since the arrival of the Internet, mainstream Irish media, including the…
Recent Local and European elections witnessed an electoral Green Tide, especially in Dublin, where Ciaran…
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Repost… The year is 1500 and Jesus Christ returns – to the city of Seville…
As French President, François Mitterrand enjoyed his fair share of sumptuous feasts in the haute…
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Nowhere that I have visited has quite the charm of Umbria, Italy’s throbbing green heart,…
Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the…
“every member of the Earth Community has three inherent rights: the right to be, to habitat, and to fulfil its role in the ever-renewing processes of the Earth community.”
Czech border police snoop along the rail carriage as we pass the frontier from Germany.…
How Irish Propaganda Operates Part I (HIPO I) identifies an ‘essential constituency’ of farmers, which…
‘This is madness’, two friends chimed one night upon hearing I planned to bring out…
THE LONG READ: In the last edition ‘How Irish Propaganda Operates’ explored how political and…