International
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Michael Smith interviews RTÉ’s Europe Editor Tony Connelly about his new book, ‘Brexit & Ireland’.
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Theresa May’s industrial policy must entail credit and tax policies to encourage industrial investment, and a shift in education policy from universities to vocational training.
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Shut up and talk
What’s to be done about North Korea? More importantly, when should it have been done? Not today or yesterday anyway.
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Ireland staying in the EU while Britain leaves will only make reunification more difficult, says Anthony Coughlan.
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Uncool Britannia
This magazine took a surprisingly benign stance on the mediocre legacy of Enda Kenny, despite the facts that he embraced neither the substantive equality nor the sustainability that animate this magazine. The main reason for this was that it is clear that our times have thrown up much worse. In Donald Trump and the Brexiteers […]
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Varoufakup
Michael Smith reviews ‘Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment’, by Yannis Varoufakis. Yanis Varoufakis is (or was) “the most interesting man in the world” according to Business Insider; a “very, very clever person” according to Martin Wolf of the Financial Times. After all he landed Danae Stratou, allegedly the inspiration for […]
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June marked 50 years since the Six Day War between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Since then the region has been in turmoil. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is the oldest civil society organisations in the region. Its work is to promote human rights in both Israel […]