The Irish government is collapsing before our eyes, like some fictional administration in a rather weak soap. The Irish people deserve better than this. Their country is at the point of financial dysfunction, their banks are bust and they are in debt up to their necks. But they are patriotic and determined, they are absorbing cuts in […]
What a performance! He will become one of the most discredited politicians of history and for good reason. It is all very sad. He had such promise and there were such high points, the Good Friday Agreement being perhaps the highest. He then became addicted to war, entirely without any strategic grasp, as an instrument of […]
This story has now really taken off, yet I think it is of much greater interest to the media than to ordinary people. Evidently the police saw an enormous can of worms, involving various levels of spying on celebrities to pick up gossip to sell more newspapers, and thought they had better things to do […]