No optimism that coalition will last four years
The draft programme for Government for Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Green coalition is historic in at least one sense. 98 years after the National Independence Movement broke apart in a bitter, and, I think, wholly unnecessary fratricidal bloodbath on a point of high principle and little consequence, the two political descendants of that rupture are […]
Sanitising Britain’s imperialist past would require collective amnesia
Many people will find themselves somewhat emotionally torn by the sight of statues being toppled and defaced by angry, if self-appointed, modern iconoclasts. On the one hand, George Floyd’s cruel murder has started a long-delayed and hugely needed confrontation by America with the reality of its shameful anti-black political, economic, penal and social discrimination and […]