Turning the Sod: Irish Farmers’ Launch New Anti-Establishment Political Movement.
Last Sunday saw the launch event of the Farmers’ Alliance, a new political initiative to bring rural voices back into Irish politics. It follows a wave of rural discontent that is sweeping across Europe in the wake of EU-imposed ‘Green...
“Sous les pavés, chomâge.” What I saw at a French riot.
https://twitter.com/TheBurkeanIE/status/1646524050989260800 Bottles and bricks fly through the air from one side of the boulevard and smash into a policeman’s riot shield. Here and there the crowd keeps its distance from the heat of small bonfires that have been made out...
A Car Bomb in Moscow: Who Killed Daria Dugin?
Last Saturday evening in Moscow, the daughter of the Russian philosopher and public figure Aleksandr Dugin, Daria “Dasha” Dugina, was killed in a car explosion. With few to no sources claiming that the explosion was purely the result of a...
The Leviathans of Islamabad: Will Imran Khan Endure?
The following first appeared on the Substack "Tadhg Pidgeon" and is syndicated with permission The government of Pakistan is a poison chalice, yet Imran Khan marches on towards it. Throughout and following this year’s constitutional crisis Khan has refused to...