For those of us who read John Le Carré novels and fancy ourselves to be espionage buffs, the FBI's dramatic bust of an alleged Russian spy ring last week provided an opportunity to show off our...
Born in Cameroon, Gregory Forstner has been exhibited in Vienna, Nice, Paris, Berlin, Montreal and New York. Winner of the First Prize of the Festival Jeunes Talents in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1994,...
About thirty years ago, there was an informal secret society in the city of Cork. Perhaps a loose net of those with a shared interest might be more accurate. This group passed the names of certain...
Thursday was the first anniversary of the publication of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse. Commonly called the Ryan Report, its publication cumulated in the realisation of the extent of the...
What exactly is a “home grown terrorist?” Young Muslims cloned in specially controlled vats hidden in secret greenhouses under guard day and night from elite seven-foot tall Al Qaeda warriors?...
The grass-roots in the UK is shattered. Party membership and volunteerism is tremendously low, and long-term disengagement with national politics had only the briefest of respites as a result of the...
Within forty-eight hours we might have a picture of what the next five years will look like in the UK. Might. It could well be that we don’t even know how the UK electoral map has finally turned...
Germany's relationship with Israel has emerged as a result of historical processes and reactions against World War II. Through the decades, that relationship has deepened, broadened, and grown to...
Last month, Mykola Azarov made Ukraine look like a wonderfully modern and enlightened nation when he famously said that conducting reforms "is not a woman's business." Since then, plenty of people...
It is commonly said that the best defence is a good offence, but just because it works in football does not mean that it should be a universal strategy. Someone should mention this to Tarcisio...
