Elections
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III The Liberal Media has not been shy about expressing its disappointment that the Far Right has had such a poor showing. The Irish Times podcast the day after the election was titled first counts trickle in and anti-immigration candidates falter. In fact the exit poll that that paper had co-commissioned had already shown that…
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I God knows there was nothing to cover in the campaign itself. Granted, An Taoiseach being caught out as a rude and cranky rightwinger was good, but who didn’t already believe that to be the case? It was an underwhelming few weeks, a dull end to a shoddy Government that had not a single accomplishment.…
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In any case, the polls showed a tie, and Trump had outperformed his polling by several percent last time around. Yet the Democrats gathered around to assure each other that Harris was in the stronger position. The elite—with a tiny number of exceptions, like Trump himself, with his grip on a kind of perverse populism—only…
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This writer can recall a Kamala shill saying in an interview a year or two ago that Harris had had many accomplishments as VP, though he declined to name a single one. Her office had a culture of bullying, that was one thing that did become public knowledge about her. As the sudden candidate, she…
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It became clear to your correspondent that the new media to which he is addicted could not correctly call the US presidential election. The descriptions of Trump exaggerated his physical frailty: on one podcast the hosts said he had faltered—almost fallen—during one of his stunts, but the video showed barely a wobble. His rally attendees…
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IV The differences between Irish and Scottish attitudes to the Union are evident in many ways, but it is a source of constant disappointment to the present writer that Scottish politics has rejected any and every means available to an anticolonial movement to succeed in its aims. Why not take the Irish case as a…
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I One of the greatest idiocies of the Late Capitalist democratic-imperialist state is that there can be such a thing as an illegal referendum, when it comes to nations within the state wanting to leave it. It seems to the present correspondent that even in an authoritarian state, it would be foolish for such a…
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I A new dawn in the last of Europe’s Habsburg-like messy conglomerates, the kind of thing that used to be called an Empire but is now reduced to a mere Kingdom. A cold new dawn it is, as Macdara will report. A few things have happened. The Conservative collapse was not at all as dramatic…
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Your correspondent hesitates to comment on current events, preferring to write by the candlelight of Retrospect. Nevertheless recent developments in both parts of the country seem to require better commentary than Macdara has seen from the zombie media, so here are his thoughts. Of the permanent Partionist Party in the twenty-six county state, three wings…
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III Of a paranoid disposition—which, Macdara might add, has served him well—the present writer has been considering the likely near-future of Ireland’s nearest neighbour (so near in fact that they are still Occupying part of the House). It is important for people to understand the scale of the collapse of the Kingdom over recent years.…