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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…
LONG READ: The Degradation of SYRIZA
SYRIZA’s rise to power in 2015 created shock waves around the world. The international Left…
Anatomy of Disgust – Northern Irish Style
This piece is not intended to provoke. It is more a look at the way…
We are in a new dark age: David Langwallner on Julian Assange
David Langwallner is a barrister working in the U.K.. He has written numerous articles for…
‘Devil in the Hills’: Jim Sheridan on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier Murder
Listen to the second half of this podcast on Patreon. Jim Sheridan condemns the Irish…
Local Government Falls Short
Long ago I read a wry assertion that local government in Ireland is ‘central government…