Category: Politics & Political Science

  • Grading Obama

    “After U.S. President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, Foreign Policy asked a group of experts to grade him on everything from North Korea to nukes. On the anniversary of his historic election, we’ve reprised the experiment — and found out that the White House isn’t doing so well.” – FP clipped from www.foreignpolicy.com…

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  • Don’t Get Mad…Get MAG Ireland

    At the Irish Motorcycle Show just gone by among the many exhibitors I got to chat to were the always interesting people at the MAG Ireland stall. So who is MAG Ireland? First off they are the Motorcycle Action Group and the best way to describe their role is to think of them as an…

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  • Thought Police

    It is official, ‘citizen’ is just the new slang for ‘slave’. The thought police are no longer hiding in the shadows, we have let them take control of every aspect of our lives. This is shocking. They may claim that we live in democracies, but liberty is almost dead. Is this the EU they insist…

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  • Ireland Said “No” – But Why?

    Ireland said no to the Lisbon Treaty earlier this summer but everyone wanted to know why…OK…not everyone but I did anyway. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has published the findings of the research they undertook after the No vote. So if you want to get your own copy of the findings (an exhaustive 5…

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  • A Letter To President Sarkozy

    Dear Mr Sarkozy, You are due here on the 21st of July, so let me say welcome to Ireland, the current speed bump in your plans to ensure that a more cost effective, democratically redundant, easier access to EU customers & militarily integrated European experiment. So the NO vote on Lisbon has created a few…

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