by nabidana | Feb 4, 2016 | #WasItForThis, Ireland Election 2016
And so it begins. Lampposts across Ireland are today festooned (or infested, depending on your preference) with the smiling and not-so-smiling faces of our modern day gladiators, vying for a connection with our ballot-booth pencils. As usual, most look like they...
by nabidana | Feb 2, 2016 | #WasItForThis, Ireland Election 2016
In the first of our unrivalled* coverage of the Irish General Election 2016, we cover the system. You don’t get this kind of coverage in the Irish Times ** Whilst I’m no Tim Roll Pickering, I am a constantly bemused observer of Irish politics, and I have...
by nabidana | Nov 23, 2015 | Conservatives
The catastrophe of the death by suicide of a young conservative activist earlier this year has opened the Conservative Party to some disbelief and ridicule, particularly in the party’s handling of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding both the...
by nabidana | Nov 5, 2015 | Ireland, Northern Ireland
Some quixotic souls in the republican movement must last night have been sitting, breath bated, in Arran sweater and Celtic jersey wearing clusters. They were waiting, no doubt with poitín in hand, for RTÉ’s ‘Ireland’s Call’ PrimeTime Special,...
by nabidana | Oct 1, 2015 | Corbyn, Corbynology, Hoons, Labour Leadership, politics
When Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead the Labour Party, Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) launched an impressive and apparently effective campaign to seize the initial narrative and establish him as a threat to the national security of the UK. The main...
