Charity, Privatisation and Body Counts
The common denominator between charities and private service providers is that they all live off…
Browsing: Current Affairs
Turkey, Journalism and Erdoğan
The following is a Q and A between Luke Sheehan and Deniz Güngör. Can you…
Name-Calling and the Fall of the West
The cultural commentator Konstantin Kisin said recently in a podcast that the left had destroyed…
Kneecapped at Coachella
Kneecap caused a stir at Coachella this year—though you wouldn’t know it from the official…
Fearful Times, and Canada
On Tuesday last I had an email from the Chancellor of UMass Lowell, where I…
Exit through the Vestry
Vestry /ˈvɛstri/ Noun a room or building attached to a church, used as an office…
The Powerful Nature of Addiction
Back in 2016, I was embarking on a road towards sobriety after nearly eighteen years…
Podcast: Patrick Cockburn on Syria and Ukraine
Are the Eurocrats and their allies most delusional about the topics they profess to find…
Podcast: ‘We Urgently Need a Global Vision’
In a turbulent period in European history, and beyond, we are delighted to draw on…
Make Greenland Great
In his last great novel The Plot Against America (2004) Philp Roth posited plausible circumstances…
Ode to the Sausage Roll
In George Orwell’s 1939 novel Coming Up For Air, at the beginning of chapter 4,…
Lebanon: 5,000 Kilometres Away
Beirut, Mar Elias, 26 November, 7pm. Despite the cold wave that hit the city this…
America The Bisected
Like most of us, I spent the past week in a state of deep reflection…
Lebanon: Domestic Considerations May Prove Decisive to Hezbollah
Media coverage of the war currently unfolding in Lebanon describe Hezbollah as an “Iranian-backed” group,…
The Austrian Mind
There still exists – even today – a yearning, a nostalgia for European solidarity, a…
Ireland’s Toxic Culture of Omertà
Recently walking into a garage to pay for diesel, I scanned the news stand, as…
Judge the Strength of a Democracy by its Treatment of Whistleblowers
In light of recent developments, not least, the announcement of Michael McGrath as the next…
‘Oppie’
So White Supremacist, U.S. Senator, Lindsay Graham, visiting Israel last week, called for nuclear Armageddon…
The Politics of the Last Announcement
In December the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) published a comparatively critical review of the…
A Rainy Night in Saifi – Luke Sheehan and Nadim Shehadi in conversation
What is a ‘real country’? For the Irish, living as we do on a divided…