Showing posts with label political commentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political commentary. Show all posts
Finn O Donnell - People Before Profit - speaks out about responsibility of people who seek change and what we can do to truly tackle the issues that face us all.

Less Mouth, More Action

Sean Mallory casts his wary eye over political events at home in Ireland and abroad in England and elsewhere.

Game Of Thrones

Sean Mallory casts his sceptical eye over events at home and in foreign countries such as England, the US and Spain. 

Lost Souls, Lost Causes & Los Insurgentes

Pádraic Mac Coitir focuses on political fragmentation among radical groups working against the development of proper politics. Pádraic Mac Coitir has been apolitical activist from childhood. 

Proper Politics

Mick Hall writes that:

Politically, nostalgia is poison, could that be why today's political and media elites push it so enthusiastically?

Politically, Nostalgia Is Poison

Sean Bresnahan looks at the upcoming elections in the North. Sean Bresnahan is a member of the Thomas Ashe Society in Omagh and National PRO of the 1916 Societies.

With yet another election in the Six Counties around the corner it's worth stepping back and looking at its purpose in context. The reality is that all of the goings on around this election are nothing more than the meaningless outworkings of a game within a game, with ringmaster Britain pulling the strings from above, as ever in control of us all. The only game that matters is the one she plays and she plays alone with the rest of us mere pawns. That is the real context to this election.

The Stormont Elections: A Mandate For British Rule

Sean Bresnahan is a republican from Tyrone and a member of the 1916 Societies. As a longtime contributor to The Pensive Quill, he writes here in a personal capacity.

With the Free State election been and gone (notably with still no government agreed or formed) and the May election north of the border closing in, an emerging narrative that republicans should go to Stormont through the backdoor of ‘Independents’ appears to be growing legs.

Stormont Is The British Rule: Lessons From History Unheeded

Mick Hall @ Organized Rage writes that:

Today powerful institutions, whether Central Government or Multinational Corporations, treat local people with absolute contempt
   

Powerful Institutions & Total Contempt

Pauline Mellon in The Diary of A Derry Mother contends that progress in the North is more mythical than real.

Over the past number of days a few issues in particular have shown that nothing has really changed here on Starship Norn Iron, despite claims to the contrary.

The Truth Shall Set You Free