Tag: Migration
Germany’s New “Totalitarian Democracy”: An Interview with Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen
Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen spent decades at the heart of the German security state. As a senior official in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and later as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he helped...
What Does Irish Right-Wing Unity Look Like?
The farmer and the cowman should be friends, Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. The cowman ropes a cow with ease, the farmer steals her butter and cheese, But that's no reason why they cain't be friends...
How to Stop an Irish Boriswave
What Happened and What's Next? Right-wing condemnation abounded online this week upon news of the signing of a new cooperation agreement between the EU and India with explicit mention of steaming migration between Europe and the subcontinent. In the works...
Imperial America: Ireland and Washington’s Expanding Biometric Border Regime
The rupturing of transatlantic relations continues to define the diplomatic calendars of both Iveagh House and European capitals with scant attention being paid to moves by Washington to hoover up the biometric data of EU citizens. Referred to by policy...
IRL Forum, Bannon and the Irish Right’s Closing Window of Opportunity
John Buchan’s Greenmantle is often misread as little more than a period adventure novel. In reality, it is a study in political uncertainty - and in what happens when a moment opens up, but nobody is ready to seize it....
Did Brexit Break Belfast? Mass Migration and the Six Counties
One of the most frequently repeated promises made during the Brexit campaign was that leaving the European Union would “end mass migration”. Nearly a decade on, that claim does not survive contact with official data. On the contrary, immigration into...
Simon On Substack: Will the Tánaiste’s Dog whistling Bury Right-Wing Populism?
Asylum: The Centre Strikes Back If centrist and centre-right promises to hem in mass migration had ever carried real policy weight, London would today remain overwhelmingly native-born thanks to Tory and New Labour promises. Readers should assess Tánaiste Simon Harris’s...
Migration Pact: Dáil Expected to Sign Ireland Down to EU Asylum Budget
Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda. The first motion locks Ireland into...
Danish Migration Solutions Won’t Work in Ireland
Mette Frederiksen, despite some optical flourishes against migration and the European Court of Human Rights, is a liberal technocrat dead-set on holding onto power. Popularising her policies in Ireland spells disaster for an immature political right, and a blessing to...
Gerard Howlin’s Boomer Moment
The blood had scarcely scabbed over on Capel Street’s recent Islamist attack when the media launched into an engineered scare regarding a supposed spike in anti-Indian hate crimes. With the Garda Press Office and Coimisiún na Meán both fumbling the...