Category: Politics

Little Cashes In: Kinzen Sold to Spotify

Cha-ching! It's been a red letter week for the anti-misinformation outlet Kinzen with the company’s sale to the multimedia giant Spotify for an undisclosed sum. Inaugurated with as much media ballyhoo and brown nosing as could be expected by RTÉ...

/ 06/10/2022

The New Nomos of the Earth: The Rise of Federal Populism

The consensus amongst liberals in the 1990s and, arguably, since Adam Smith, was a belief in the ‘de-territorialisation’ of the world. This was the belief that globalisation was a force for good, an economic version of Christendom, that the invisible...

/ 05/10/2022

Athena: Netflix Drama Portrays Collapse of France into Civil War

"The only way to love France today is to hate it in its current form”- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle The French cinematic Tiber has been foaming with much blood this week with Netflix's release of the racially charged film Athena. ...

/ 03/10/2022

Ireland’s Foreign Policy Stagnation on Display at UCD Event

As a consequence of an increasingly unstable international situation throughout the past decade, contemporary European foreign policy has begun to change. Since the end of the Second World War, and exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, European interests...

/ 30/09/2022

The Irish Families Displaced by Asylum Surge: The Burkean Interviews

This is the first of a series of exposés on the effect of the establishment's mass-asylum policy on the most vulnerable groups in Irish society. The last few years have not been the best for the Irish housing system. With...

/ 29/09/2022

Victory in Rome: A Report from the Fratelli Press Room

A report from a Burkean foreign correspondent on the Continent. "Because when I am only a number. When I no longer have an identity or roots. Then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The...

/ 28/09/2022

Cost of Living Protests: The Left Plays the Populist Game

Two years of the Irish Left hiding behind NPHET’s skirt came to an end this weekend as Dublin saw mass mobilisation for a march against the Cost of Living Crisis. Headlined by Taoiseach in waiting Mary Lou MacDonald and the...

/ 26/09/2022

Who Lets Moore Street Rot?

Wandering down Moore Street the morning after hoodlums rammed Garda cars in Cherry Orchard, I chanced upon a glimpse of Dublin in the rarified ol' times. There, guitar in hand, surrounded by a phalanx of smiling Gardaí, was actor Phelim...

/ 25/09/2022

Inside the German Fedposting Machine

The Bundersrepublik of Germany’s counter terror operations against the online far right were partially divulged this week in reportage by the left leaning Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. Focused upon the exploits of an unnamed female officer for the Federal Office for...

/ 23/09/2022

Automation Discredits Arguments for Mass Immigration into Ireland

While Irish Government officials jump for joy at news of the record of employment, precious forethought has been given to the curveball that further automation will play in the labour market. With a fifth or more of the population foreign...

/ 21/09/2022