Tag: Migration
Is the Gaza Crisis About to Propel Islamo-Populism in the UK?
“I had dreamt of no Islamic revolution in Britain but rather of a slow conversion, helped by an Islamic infiltration.” Anthony Burgess 1978 Bye-elections aside the British Labour Party is having a poor week. The centrist Labour leader Keir Starmer...
Paddy Cosgrave Did Nothing Wrong (About Israel)
The Web Summit founder has been forced to issue an apology for his tweets on the situation in Gaza. What was this all about, and was he right to say sorry? Over the past few days, a storm in a...
The Good, the Bad, and the Cringey: Post-mortem of the Dáil Protest
“I hate little wars,” said Wellington. So do we; and we hate still more a petty mob meeting without purpose, and dispersing without success. Perfect order, silence, obedience, alacrity, and courage make an assemblage formidable and respectable.” Thomas Davis: “Scolding...
Roma Gypsies in Ireland: 25 Years of Crime
With Alex Soros promising to use his father’s NGO empire to draw greater focus and concessions towards Roma Gypsies, the Burkean takes stock of part of this group’s recent history on our island. In a 1998 article for the Irish...
The Pegasus Plot: How Zionism Sapped Spanish Sovereignty
Both VOX and the general Spanish right are still licking their wounds a month after a snap election saw a grand coalition of populists and conservatives stumble at their overall objective of displacing the ruling socialist party (PSOE). Not the...
Visa Diplomacy: West African Carnage Will Have Asylum Blowback for Ireland
Has the African coup mania of the past two years paved the way for a cataclysmic regional war that will send another swarm of migrants hurtling toward Europe? Almost certainly so. The overthrow of a tinpot pro-Western regime in Niger...
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...
Civil War? No, But French Riots Still a Political Game Changer
Monday afternoon, and it's increasingly clear that the forces of the French Republic are gaining the upper hand against the Arab rioters who have hammered the nation the past week. The French intifada of 2023 ends with a remarkably low...
Thoughts on Surviving the Battles of Pearse Street
The night of Friday 12th May saw me in Pearse Street and Saturday saw me outside the Custom House, then back to Pearse Street, before returning home via James Joyce’s old stomping grounds of Finn’s Hotel and Trinity’s forbidding walls....
Children At Risk? Migrant Exposes Himself, Defecates at Co. Clare Asylum Centre As Locals Protest
The Burkean has received reports and evidence of a migrant exposing himself and defecating by the road at the site of an ongoing standoff between angry locals and the government (who are trying to plant the area with foreign men)....