Tag: Populism

Irish Local Elections: How to be “The Controlled Immigration Guy”

The following article first appeared on Substack and is syndicated with the permission of the author. The signs are everywhere. Green Party councillors holding parish hall meetings on sustainability, Labour photo ops promoting new African and Indian members are surfacing...

/ 09/08/2023

Sinn Fein and the Risk of Post-Populist Fatigue

Speculation as to Sinn Fein’s utility as a party of government and its actions therein are prevalent. The question as to whether a Sinn Féin government could fulfil its rhetorical election promises is a significant one, which may have repercussions...

/ 30/04/2023

Parochialism vs. Populism: What Next For the Rural Independent Group?

A video published by Gript on April 12th, interviewed independent TDs Mattie McGrath and Michael Collins on the idea of a new party that would put “Ireland first” and speak up for rural communities which have been left behind.  Undoubtedly...

/ 20/04/2023

Our Gallant Allies: How Will Irish Progressives Deal with Europe’s Turn Right?

With Ireland’s NGOcracy scrambling to put out fires at home, liberals took a minor spit take at the presence of An Taoiseach in Brussels hobnobbing with Órban and Meloni at this month's EU migration summit.  A standard tête-à-tête, it constituted...

/ 20/02/2023

Meloni Warts And All: Fratelli Win Should Be the Beginning Not the End for Italian Nationalists

With a commitment to move the Italian embassy to Jerusalem, abet the war effort in Ukraine and clamp down on illegal migration, Fratelli d'Italia romped home comfortably in this month’s Italian general election. Displacing Brussels favourite and arch-technocrat Mario Draghi,...

/ 11/10/2022

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

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

Civil Society Assemble! Maynooth Issues Report on Combating Right Wing Populism

Resisting the Far Right: Civil Society Strategies for Countering the Far Right in Ireland is a recent publication by the academic jokers of Maynooth University, which was once synonymous with the supposedly far right Catholic Church, before this obvious rot...

/ 20/09/2022

Right Wing Extremism in Ireland aka The State Wants Us to Do Something Stupid

The canon of Irish nationalism is replete with energised vanguards doing injury against an occupational and malign state. From Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill to the Provisional movement, the pike has won the day over non-violent and certainly unromantic democratic methods...

/ 06/09/2022

Will Le Pen Accept Zemmour’s Electoral Olive Branch?

It's been a case of third time unlucky for Madame Le Pen as French nationalism yet again failed to cross the electoral line in recent Presidential elections. While stitched together by glue and cynicism, the neoliberal grand coalition of leftist...

/ 29/04/2022