This transformation of politics in the west from a battle of ideas to a battle of competing tribes of people convinced that a single defeat will bring the end of the world as we know it is, needless to say, not a great development.
If the Pope – this one or his predecessors – had any interest in saving the church in Ireland, he should have sacked every Irish Bishop twenty years ago and installed people from outside the country to completely reform the Irish Church, root and branch.
Qui Bono?
Lack of media attention on maternal deaths ‘bizarre’
Watch out, carbon molecules.
The Sinn Fein statement was almost perfectly calibrated to alienate all sides.
For Harris, the fencing along the canals runs a real risk of becoming a real electoral monument to his lack of judgment.
Vietnam?
A box-ticking exercise.
Grand Canal
Damaged social cohesion
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