International
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Multinational States to break up into national ones.
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Are Clooney and wife losing touch?
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In Greece the backlash finds concrete form
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China astir.
By Peter Emerson. Nineteen eighty-five: Mikhail Gorbachev; the start of the end of Soviet communism. Those were exciting times. The collapse of the Berlin wall, the first Russian elections, the quests for Georgian/Lithuanian independence, and so on. Life was changing, fast. And even those who opposed such changes, like those of the Albanian regime, with […]
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Confusion on the Continent.
Book review Don’t Mention the Wars: a Journey through European Stereotypes Tony Connelly New Island Press €19.99. By Ronán Lynch. In late October, a Ryanair flight from Kraków to Dublin was delayed by fog, prompting an adventurous Irishman booked on the flight to take to social media to complain. After taking his […]
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By Mark McGovern After the terrorist attacks that killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo’s offices, and four innocent people in a kosher supermarket in early January, it suddenly seemed that everyone was Charlie: all the world’s leaders were Charlie, Enda Kenny was Charlie, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Queen Elizabeth II were Charlie. All […]
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Humiliating heroes.
By Frank Connolly. The High Court is about to adjudicate on the constitutionality of the direct-provision system for refugees. This is a story illustrating who the system affects, and how. Ramesh (not his real name) was a respected journalist and talented, acclaimed, poet in Sri Lanka when he was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of […]