Ireland and the Universal Periodic Review

Ireland today subjected itself to the most palpably insane political process imaginable. Taking part in the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD, faced questions from Ireland’s peers, the nations of the...

Why so much talk and so little trouser on riots?

Everybody seems to be wondering why the UK response to rioting has been so slow.  There are also plenty of people asking why Boris doesn’t do something. The answer is pretty simple; the civil disturbance is now so serious that the only reasonable response to it...

A Bulwer-Lytton Prize Entry

The previously discarded coffee he drank through his disgustingly unkempt moustache on the filthy mattress under the railway bridge was not Lavazza, but some inferior brand which, in between his tormented visions of vomiting clowns, he fancied could do with a spoonful...