RTE, for whatever reason, appears to believe that one of its core duties as a national broadcaster is to advance “the message” on climate change at every available opportunity
On this issue, our culture is simply superior.
Base politics.
Dying for the glory of the motherland is deeply engrained in the Russian cultural DNA.
The only way, ultimately, to reduce support for the “far right” is to show their voters that there is a better option. But the political establishment across Europe has absolutely no intention of doing so.
The whole point of forming the party was to build an organisation that could add more TDs and Senators in order to work towards entering Government. To do that, the party had to acquire a committed activist base. That is where Elaine Mullally came in.
“What can you do?” he responded. “In war, you still need to live your life”.
All of this, needless to say, will be a gravy train for a range of campaigning groups who will be able to bill the state for this work.
At a stroke, and for no good reason, the party has just made itself untrustworthy to many of those who voted for it. It is a calamitous error of political judgement.
The very existence of Biden hollows out the argument against Trump.
Whatever her qualifications might be in academic terms, her record in practical terms does not point to a person who approaches these issues with a particularly open mind.
This is the problem when, to coin a phrase, an entire country – or at least the dominant class within it – starts believing its own bullshit.