With the digitalisation and globalisation of the world, we now have countless companies who have truly global power. Power which, we have just discovered, they are willing and able to deploy for explicitly political goals.
President Zelensky, the toast of the western world, is not a perfect Democrat. But we cannot be blinded by contrarianism.
A TD has told the Dáil that “we are witnessing the end of democracy as we know it,” and claims that the government is “talking about restricting essential freedoms forever.” The comments were made by Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara in the Dáil this week during a debate on the government’s extension of emergency Covid […]
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki writes on the balance between national and international law.
The great paradox of modern Ireland is that the more power Irish liberals acquire, the more illiberal they become. We had, yesterday, a collection of taxpayer funded NGO’s in to visit the Oireachtas committee on Housing and Local Government, which is responsible for how Ireland runs its elections, amongst other things. Kitty Holland picks up […]
Lai, who is estimated to be worth over $1bn, recently had his assets frozen by Chinese-aligned Hong Kong authorities.
Since February 1st a South East Asian country that rarely makes the news here in Ireland has been gradually and tragically turning into a bloodbath. For Myanmar (or Burma) this is in some ways a new eruption of a wound that has afflicted the country for decades, you could say generations. In other ways, it […]
On June 11th, 2004, sixteen and a half years ago, the Irish people went to the polls to vote on the 27th amendment to the constitution. The proposal in front of them was to strip from the constitution the automatic right to citizenship conferred on every child born on Irish soil. Instead, prior to the […]
A democracy’s fortitude and constitutional structures can only be judged by their performance through times of strain – times such as when there is no government in place or where a pandemic rages. We are in such a time now, and the rot within the democratic processes and the institutions of this country are plain […]
The public deserve to be treated like adults. Especially by their elected leaders. As the covid crisis rolls on, it appears those who should be asking the questions on our behalf, testing the evidence, addressing public concerns are hiding behind selected experts and advisory groups. NPHET is just the latest manifestation of the watering down […]
A lawyer and leading political expert on China says that the United States, and Western democracies, should focus on defeating Chinese communism, not accommodating it. Gordon Chang said that the “audaciousness, ruthlessness, and maliciousness” of China’s Communist Party (CCP) was being emboldened by the “feebleness” and “timidity” of the response from the rest of the world. Writing for […]
We already knew or should have known that we have the worst form of government ‘except for all the alternatives that have ever been tried’, as Winston Churchill put it. Sometimes it works better than other times. Sometimes, it is not the concept itself that is found wanting but the manner of its application. But […]