Tag: Election
Is the Trinity Seanad Race Already Sewn Up?
Nominations are closed, ballot papers are being posted and the University of Dublin's 2022 Seanad by-election is on. It is a large field of 17 candidates, with representatives of minority communities, family therapists, former ambassadors, Continuity Greens, Dissident Greens, students,...
Time for Ireland to Say Goodbye to Pax Americana
2020 — The American Bogside? As dawn breaks on election day in America never has a modern presidential contest had such little grip on the global attention span. While no way short of drama and meddling by Big Tech and...
After Trump: The State of Democracy in America 2020
As America approaches a general election, it is worth examining it’s politics, and Irish people’s attitude to them. Irish people have more of an affinity with the Democrats because we are spoon-fed their culture, and therefore are inclined to the...
The Programme for Government, not a Programme for Governance
The wait is over. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have finally revealed the Green Party’s manifesto as the basis for their coalition. There are 10 broad and vague areas of interest with which they are seeking to entice the journalists...
Election 2020: A Vision For the Coming Decade
The general election is of both great importance and no importance at the same time. It is of no importance because the difference between the parties is very narrow, and virtually all have been rendered uniform by the State-NGO complex. Given...
Political Pizza
Finding it difficult to make sense of #GE2020? Going by the fact that on a good day, about one out of every three voters won’t even bother voting, it looks like you’re not alone. There is a theory that everything...
The Intelligentsia
Once every few years something happens which so succinctly epitomises the zeitgeist that it requires no further explanation. As reported by the Irish Times, Senator Catherine Noone called her party president and the incumbent Taoiseach Leo Varadkar “autistic.” She later...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Not a Threat to Democracy, He is a Threat to the Left’s Fake Democracy
“Power is like a violin, you take it with the left and you play it with the right.” This phrase defines the decades old mix of socialist populism and crony capitalism behind Brazil's brand of democracy that is about to...
Faith Goldy’s Campaign for Toronto Mayor – An Exercise in Media Power
Faith Goldy, a Canadian political commentator formerly with Rebel Media, is a contender in the election for Mayor of Toronto, to be held this Monday. She’s running an above-board and professional campaign, her message seems fairly solid, and her campaign’s...
Michael D. Higgins’ Marxist Philosophical Circus
In his “King Lear,” William Shakespeare writes: “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.” I cannot think of a public figure in Ireland who exemplifies it better than our old-new presidential candidate Michael D. Higgins. He...