Environmentalism has an image of being the politics of the left but in reality it is the most conservative political ideology imaginable. Centred on a disgust with the masses, environmentalism's...
There's plenty of blame to go around for Martha Coakley's defeat at Scott Brown’s hands in the Massachusetts Senate race. Let's start with Coakley herself. She ran a pathetic campaign. Starting out...
When history is being made, you focus on the mundane details, such as the snow that swirled down on election day in Kyiv. At the local voting precinct, the first representatives of the electorate to...
Media images appear to be prime motivation this week in a collective, mobilized response underscored by Western guilt. Bombarded with dust-covered corpses, blood and broken bones, and bodies rotting...
With the all the newspaper ink dedicated to a historic economic decline and record-breaking figures for drug murders, there's not been a lot of leftover attention for polarizing social issues in...
It has been a busy year in Irish politics – and hectic to say the least: first the never-ending revelations into Catholic sex abuse finally implicated the state, then the public was treated to the...
Has the old battle cry “The personal is political” been taken too far or perhaps, too literally? More importantly, have our politics descended into a form of narcissism, of trying to purify...
It was revealed today that Iris Robinson, member of both the Westminster parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly, was unfaithful to her husband, leader of the right wing Democratic Unionist Party...
2009 was a watershed year for Irish sexual politics – but not in the sense that we usually understand the term. What we have seen is the intense politicisation of sex. Ireland has never had a...
Five years ago, give or take a couple of months, I was in Denver at a concert on the Plea for Peace tour. I was a rock and film writer just cutting her teeth on her first political column, and it was...
