After four long years in office, each day of which brought some new dramatic declaration of a crisis from the self-styled resistance, Donald Trump went before the American people on Tuesday night and won – at the time of writing – four million more votes than he had in 2016. Republicans were supposed to lose […]
On September 13th, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former Mayor of New York and former Democrat candidate for US President, made a big announcement: He was going to spend one hundred million dollars of his own money to swing the state of Florida for Joe Biden. Last night, President Trump won Florida going away, significantly increasing […]
At 11.30pm Irish time, the polls will close in Indiana and Kentucky, and counting will begin in a US Presidential Election that has been ongoing now for 18 months. Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President on April 25th, 2019. Tonight, voters will render a judgement both on him, and on the incumbent President, Donald […]
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party, and then, latterly, the Brexit Party, has announced in recent days that he will set up a new political party – Reform UK – for the sole purpose of opposing the Coronavirus Lockdown introduced by Boris Johnson’s Government. Reform UK is not a new party, […]
The recent spate of head-chopping terrorism in France would appear, at first glance, to be relatively easy to explain: The culprits are a group (it’s popular, but of dubious accuracy, to say “a tiny minority”) of extremists in the French Muslim community who believe themselves to be waging a holy war against the French state […]
Leo Varadkar has been finding allies in unusual places, this morning, following last Friday’s publication in Village magazine of allegations that he had acted unlawfully by sharing details of a draft contract for GPs with a rival group of GPs: Former minister for agriculture Barry Cowen has said Leo Varadkar is “entitled to make a […]
The money, you see, was only resting in Elisha McCallion’s account. That, at least, is the version of reality we are being asked to accept by the Sinn Fein leadership, which yesterday sought, and received, the resignation of the Derry-born senator over the mysterious diversion of ten thousand pounds of UK taxpayers money, which ended […]
Perhaps no country in the world has been the subject of more debate and scrutiny during the Coronavirus pandemic than Sweden. In the eyes of those who oppose the lockdown approach adopted by almost every other western country, Sweden is the example of a country that has successfully battled the virus without imposing draconian restrictions […]
Update: Wow. Jeremy Corbyn MP has been suspended by the Labour Party. — Britain Elects (@BritainElects) October 29, 2020 __________________________________________________________________ The leader of the UK Labour Party and the British Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, has said that the publication of a report into anti-semitism in the party is “a day of shame for the Labour […]
Last week, we published a story about mounting concerns amongst teachers that the Government’s public spin about the safety of schools is not matched by the realities on the ground. Teachers across the country told us, here at Gript, that they felt that there is a concerted effort by the authorities to artificially depress the […]
The bad news for Donald Trump, in this new poll from the excellent Ireland Thinks (which increasingly does polling on interesting questions that other companies just don’t) is that if Ireland was the 51st state of the Union, it would be the most Democratic state there is. Even in ultra-liberal Vermont, Trump will get something […]
The abbreviation “NGO” stands, as most people know, for “non governmental organisation”. In other words, it covers a whole range of charities, political lobby groups, and representative bodies who take part in the political process, but who are not political parties, or part of the Government. Amnesty Ireland is an NGO, as is the Irish […]