Do Not Resuscitate
Holy Gawd, we’re back to Charles Darwin and his interpreters. In the mid-19th century Darwin…
Browsing: Current Affairs
China Under Lockdown: Another Cultural Revolution?
Editor’s Note: A long-term Western resident in China responds to conspiracy theories about the country…
Covid-19: What Twitter is Saying
Despite a mortality rate not far off Ireland’s (107 v 150 per million), Sweden has…
Covid-19: E.U. Teeters on the Brink
The five hundred billion euro rescue package agreed by E.U. Finance Minister, subject to approval…
Under Lockdown in Piedmont
Imagine a world where people live isolated in underground one-person apartments, talk to each other…
Barcelona Under Lockdown
It all happened too fast, so quickly that we didn’t have time to fully understand.…
Journeys of Displacement – a Personal Reflection
In October of 2013, a ship carrying hundreds of women, men and children, mainly from…
Ireland’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
The total number of deaths attributed to the Coronavirus in Ireland had reached 22 by…
It is Time for a Renewed Deal
U.S. President (1932-45) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into one of the most aristocratic families…
The Rocky Road to a Republic
You might think of the film ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’ as some dated artifact,…
What Next for Rojava?
Donald Trump’s abrupt announcement of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria last October brought dire…
Lebanon’s Perfect Storm
On Friday 14th of February Lebanon commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of the brutal assassination of…
Who will take on Trump?
So the Phony War continues in the Democratic Primaries as Bernie takes the New Hampshire…
The Long View on the Irish General Election 2020
Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start.…
Camp Moria Lesbos – ‘Hell in Europe’
Having grown up around favelas in the East Side of São Paulo I was expecting…
Democracy in Decay: Steve Bannon & Jordan Peterson
The intellectual decay associated with Jordan Peterson has provided the soil wherein Steve Bannon’s seedlings have germinated.
Predictions 2020: 5G Rollout, Trump Card & Reuters Report
Five predictions for 2020: The Trump Card, an analysis of the Reuters Institute Digital News…
The Late Risers’ Manifesto 2020
Today it is shameful to be unemployed and regarded as an achievement to sell oneself…
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…
Special Report: Punitive Policies Inflict Further Exclusion and Trauma on Syrian Refugee Children
The future of a generation born during over eight years of conflict in Syria is…