The Partionist Party
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The representatives of the Liberal Right expect to be judged on their exquisite feelings, not their murderous acts; they expect to be commended exactly for this gap between what they would like to do (nice things), and what they believe they must do (nasty things). It is mark not only of a lack of imagination,…
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What better evidence of the base nature of the Imperialists than the following response to the Foreign Minister, which begins with a rote expression of support for genocide and then wanders into a bizarrely non-commital humanitarianism. This is from a Labour Party politician—like the man she is responding to, she is Black, but is thoroughly…
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The English government belatedly banned less than one in ten weapon shipments to the zionist forces currently engaged in an active and very public genocide, not to mention a campaign of equally public terrorism against a host of other countries in the region. This seems to the present writer to be an emblematic act of…
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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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After surveying some of the Giants of the Irish political landscape, and while recognising that he has gestured towards her existence before, Macdara wants to explain why he has chosen Claire Hanna as his next subject. In short, the present writer expects that Hanna, currently a lower-order saint in the Partitionist firmament, might find herself…
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Your correspondent offers a special edition of Profiles in Scourge: a group profile covering the Martin family, otherwise styled the Green Party. I As a function of the stipulation in Bunreacht na hÉireann that the number of Government Ministers must not exceed fifteen, the State presently finds itself with extraordinary ministerial titles that combine multiple…
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It amazes Macdara that our Tánaiste is only 63, since he seems to have been hanging around the Cabinet since the middle of the last century, and in all honesty could pass for 83; put him next to Biden and you have to wonder which is which. What must a man of such lengthy service…
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We’ve been working on the Santa Claus issue for a number of weeks now emmm and it’s important to say to all children in the country emmm that we regard emmm Santa Claus’s travels eh as essential travel for essential purposes and therefore he is exempt eh from the need to self-quarantine for fourteen days…
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US President Kennedy arranged for a book to be published in his name in 1956, Profiles in Courage. To honour the quality of current Irish politicians, Macdara hereby inaugurates a new feature for this site: Profiles in Scourge. And who better to start off with than our head of government, though when the present writer…
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The logic of the Occupied Territories, which is to say, the logic of Partitionism as it operates in the colonial entity, can be summarised as sure aren’t both sides as bad as each other, with the additional observation that in between these apparent twin extremes we find a growing—always growing—centre ground. This petty exercise requires…