Nationalism can be a politics of care — about belonging, culture, and democracy — or a politics of control, built on fear and exclusion. In
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I was intrigued by the answers to the polls posted with yesterday’s video on whether the UK can survive. As is our usual practice, we
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Is the breakup of Britain inevitable? Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are turning away from Westminster while England clings to a failing system of centralised
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I commented on the prospects for the Irish presidential election yesterday. Today, we have a first hint of the outcome: You can say the post
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Wales rocked the power of neoliberalism yesterday. Ireland might also do so today. As the FT has noted: Ireland looks set to elect a hard-left
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As I note in my column in The National this morning (and I have edited the opening, very slightly), in the light of recent moves
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Yesterday‘s post on Plato’s Cave was not, as it turns out, the only one to have come out of Saturday morning’s discussion that Jacqueline and
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A US-based writer called Chris Armitage has noted in his Substack that: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once.
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My podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon of the Echo Chamber podcast in Ireland is now out on free release. Returning champion Prof @RichardJMurphy
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