The problem, or really problems, are several.
Statues, and names, and all other monuments, do not exist to praise the wrongdoing of those they commemorate.
It’s a religious revival, a sort of religious revolution, in which the earth is God, and we the people are the sinners who offend it.
Once you give Government a tool to do something, it’s always the first thing civil servants reach for when a crisis hits.
“If you want my opinion, it’s this: Robert Troy should be hounded out of office. Chased. Given the boot. Fecked out. Perhaps even made a national pariah.
But not for this.”
The fact of the matter is this: “Far Right” is just the bucket, increasingly, into which the state and its allies toss every issue and group that they do not wish to deal with.
Some months ago, it seemed all but certain that Biden’s Democrats would lose both chambers of Congress this November.
Rent controls and their effects have never been a secret: In every country, and every city, where they have ever been introduced, the impact has been disastrous.
Collins has no relevance at all to the Ireland of today.
If we had a functioning political left in this country, one that actually cared about the working people and deprived people that it pretends to represent, Saturday’s protest would have been much bigger.
For the HSE’s figures to be correct, that would mean that there would have to have been 3,100 deaths this year from Covid, making it the worst year of the pandemic to date. This, very clearly, is not true.
Not, of course, that anyone would ever suggest that an inexperienced Minister like Norma Foley would be being played like a fiddle by career civil servants. Perish the thought.