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Category Archives: Politics
LRB Blog: A Moment of Clarity
On Wednesday afternoon, excerpts from a speech by the Irish finance minister Michael Noonan to the Bloomberg Ireland Economic Summit in Dublin, purportedly copied from the Irish Times website, appeared on PoliticalWorld.org. The contributor, PaddyJoe, accused the newspaper of removing … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ireland, London Review of Books, Politics
Tagged Michael Noonan, Political World
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Seville Youth Bear Brunt of Economic Collapse
A middle-aged man with a Che Guevara beard and a black and white keffiyeh smiles down from an election poster attached to a lamppost in Gines, a middle class suburb on the outskirts of Seville. Below the photograph a single … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Society and Culture
Tagged Andalusia, Indignados, M15, Spain, Unemployment
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Book Review: David Harvey – Rebel Cities
Last January 25, over 50,000 people occupied in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, in protest at the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Less than a week later, the number of protestors in the square and surrounding streets had swelled to more … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged David Harvey, Marxism, Rebel Cities
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Between the Lines
In 1971, a parliamentary Working Group criticised the speed with which walls, gates and fences were being put up to separate Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. The ‘peace lines’, constructed mainly by the British army, were creating an … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Society and Culture
Tagged Belfast, LRB, peace lines
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Paul Mason – Kicking Off the Revolution
On a bright Saturday morning early last year, a bleary-eyed Paul Mason sat down to pen a blog for Newsnight, the BBC current affairs programme on which he is economics editor. The previous evening he had delivered a lecture on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, The Herald
Tagged Guy Debord, Newsnight, Occupy, Paul Mason, Revolution
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Boris Johnson’s ‘lefty crap’ could cost him London’s Irish vote
Almost every sketch of Boris Johnson includes the same adjective: gaffe-prone. And with good reason – during his chequered political career, the current London mayor has variously accused the city of Liverpool of “wallowing” in its “victim status”, compared Tory … Continue reading
The Maze and dealing with the past in Northern Ireland
If ever a country was defined by a punctuation mark, it’s Northern Ireland and the forward-slash. A history of conflict has produced some awkward semantic contortions: Catholic/Protestant, Nationalist/Unionist, and, of course, Derry/Londonderry, that waggish ‘Stroke City’. Less celebrated, but no … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Society and Culture
Tagged Maze, Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson, Stormont
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Irish Emigration is No Lifestyle Choice
Every St Stephen’s Day I play soccer with a group of school friends in Longford, my hometown. It’s not a pretty sight – 22 over-fed men, their prime fast disappearing over the horizon, huffing and puffing on the local Gaelic … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Irish Post, Politics, Society and Culture
Tagged Irish Emigration, Michael Noonan
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Referendum fever is crossing the Irish Sea
LAST Saturday, Tyrone defeated Derry in the final of the McKenna Cup at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh. Among the sell-out crowd was an unlikely acolyte of Ulster GAA: Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson. While right-wing unionists decried the … Continue reading
Zizek, Bankers Bonuses and Capitalism after Industry
In 2010, it was politicians’ expenses. More recently public ire was – rather fairly – targeted at tabloid journalists and their nimble telecommunications skills. Now it’s bankers and their egregious bonuses. RBS and Stephen Hestor has dominated the news agenda … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Society and Culture
Tagged Capitalism, London Review of Books, RBS, Stephen Hestor, Zizek
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