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Labour sold out long ago
It doesn’t want economic, social and political transformation
Opinion
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A citizens’ forum should be followed by formation of a new electoral force Déirdre de Búrca For many, politics is increasingly a discredited profession. The political parties that operate within the existing system are seen to be part of the problem, rather than the solution to our governance crisis. The prospect of creating a new political movement […]
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Constantin Gurdgiev Weeks after the Croke Park talks about public-sector reform and Ireland’s Policy Kindergarten is still agitated by cuts in Government expenditure. The logic of arguments from the likes of Tasc, the Irish Times, and an army of Union-employed ‘economists’, is perverse: ‘In order to get the economy back on track, we need to […]
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It doesn’t want economic, social and political transformation Joe Higgins A General Election must be held at the very latest in two years time. Very possibly it will take place much earlier and may be triggered by the Green Party suddenly discovering that it has an irreconcilable ‘principled’ difference with Fianna Fáil on some issue […]
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RTE’s investment propaganda
At my increasingly advanced age, I have learned a healthy scepticism about stuff the media tells me. So when lots of papers and pundits were telling me that George Lee was a uniquely talented individual, a thoroughbred among cart-horses who, given the chance, would have got on to the rail and won us victory in our race against permanent recession – no, I didn’t believe it.
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Irish revolutionism is half-baked
The fundamental problem with Irish politics is not our much-decried proportional representation electoral system or the absurd subatomic fragmentation of politics into parish-pump power brokerages. The most rotten aspect of our political environment is the culture of clientelism that underlies the foundation of society.
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Carol Coulter replies to John Waters’s comments in the last issue of Village