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Daily commentary on politics, ideas, and the arts worldwide with an Irish focus by Richard Waghorne, Irish political commentator and Director of the Freedom Institute.
2016-03-19 18:53
I am going through Irish Times archives at the moment (exciting, I know) and came across a line worth mentioning. The date is September 3rd 2002. The quote:
Mr Cheney and others have indica… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Dr. Rory Miller of Kings College London features in an important extended interview with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, available here. Readers with any interest at all in Irish fo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It is often levelled as a criticism of the Bush administration that the world is now less safe as a consequence of the policies they have pursued and today's Sunday Tribune poll shows 80% of… Read More
2006-09-13 15:05
Versions of the following pieces were published in the Irish Daily Mail and Ireland on Sunday on Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday of the last week and are republished below in the order they were… Read More
2006-09-13 12:51
The fantastically useful Politics in Ireland site is up and running. It's has an excellent facility for sorting online writing on politics in Ireland by party or politician. Check it out Read More
2006-09-11 20:32
Some quick recommendations.
First, Foreign Affairs have a provocative roundtable on the state of the threat from al-Qaeda five years after 9/11. Of deeper and richer analysis, and as a very… Read More
2006-09-11 19:03
The third of my pieces since Harney's resignation is in Tuesday's Irish Daily Mail. Once they're no longer on the market, I'll publish the set online, if the editors are kind enough to grant… Read More
2006-09-08 08:56
Damien, Mick, Suzy, and Cian announced this morning the 'Blogging the Election conference'. Details here Read More
2006-09-07 19:18
If you're going to resign, don't do it at five in the afternoon. Lowly scribes have deadlines you know Read More
2006-09-07 14:31
The Jerusalem Post interviews Dr. Rory Miller on Irish-Israeli relations. One JP typo on Dail seat numbers, but an excellent piece Read More
2006-09-05 14:50
The New Republic, one of America's most distinguished political magazines, if a little left of this blog, has launched a very exciting groupblog titled Open University. According to the blur… Read More
2006-09-04 17:48
Assuming the schedule doesn't change, I am due to speak on BBC World Service tomorrow morning on Gerry Adams in the Middle East, particularly his meeting with Hamas. The program broadcasts w… Read More
2006-09-04 17:39
Intellectual fashions change surprisingly quickly. A friend of mine, a political philosopher in America now retired, took great pleasure in telling me when we first met that at the time he w… Read More
2006-08-31 18:54
Myself and Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University will be discussing the UN's performance in Lebanon on Newstalk tomorrow morning at about 7.40 Read More
2006-08-26 11:19
I suppose Socrates had it worse, but Bertrand Russell had his share of trials and tribulations. Not least, as Edward T. Oakes, S.J. reports in an amusing post that impressively combines blog… Read More
2006-08-26 11:05
Lybian despot Muammar al-Gathafi (to use what seems to be his preferred transliteration) has a blog. You can read his thoughts on how to solve the Kashmiri crisis, the African cultural revol… Read More
2006-08-25 12:21
I don't eat out as much as I'd like to, which is probably no harm, but I got a kick out of Trevor White's Ten Commandments for dining out. For instance:
9. When a man is served before a wom… Read More
2006-08-24 22:07
A version of this article was published in the June/July issue of Magill Magazine.
War of the World, Niall Ferguson
Penguin, £25, 816pp
Britain, it is often said, lacks intellectual… Read More
2006-08-21 21:07
This is just a plug for the excellent First Things blog. Thanks to the generosity of a friend I've been a subscriber for several years to the print issue and nothing makes my evening like ar… Read More
2006-08-21 08:14
I read Oxblog daily, and was rather surprised when doing the morning rounds clutching a restorative mug of coffee to see my own name. I remembered after a minute or two. Myself and Peter Nol… Read More
2006-08-20 20:07
Ross Frennet, known to some readers of this blog, is blogging from the front in Syria, Israel, and the Lebanon. Quite a way to spend a summer and quite an example of blogging adding value Read More
2006-08-18 15:03
France, leading the force, pledges two hundred troops. Germany none. Ireland says we won't send troops if, you know, they might get shot at and stuff. Makes you proud, doesn't it? Nothing li… Read More
2006-08-17 09:43
The Telegraph reports astonishing poll numbers from the Spectator. Along with a collapse in British confidence in President Bush and the trans-Atlantic alliance, the survey reveals that:
Wh… Read More
2006-08-16 23:22
Graham Neary is blogging. Knowing Graham to some extent I expect great things Read More
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