“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.
On Friday both the Irish Times and the Irish Independent published stories which claimed the far right was growing in Ireland, based on a ‘report’ by a group called the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE). The IT’s report was titled “Growth of far-right in Ireland set to continue according to US monitoring group,” […]
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.
Transcendent values.
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.
2,000 in California alone, its claimed
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.
A uniformly more casual approach to policing?
When faced directly with a choice between a politician in Cheney who told the truth, and a politician in her opponent, Harriet Hageman, who persisted in telling Trumps lies, voters on the right deliberately and actively chose the liar.