Author: Suneil Sharma

The visit from the new Prime minister and the Northern Ireland Secretary of State was a courtesy visit and nothing more. However, our local politicians have tried to sell the visit as a more engaged and generous British government. Starmer has plenty of priorities in England like, a crumbling NHS, a crumbling judicial and prison…

The Presidential debate on the 27th of June was not a debate but some mud-slinging between an old man, literally not fit to be president because of his age, clearly past his physical and mental best and another who is not fit because of his limited intellectual capacity, narcissism and a very long list of…

I am writing this piece because there is nothing interesting or more to say about Northern Ireland’s dysfunctional political system and the mediocrity that we have elected and will most certainly elect again. On the 13th of May Rishi, our esteemed Prime Minister attempted another relaunch with 28 minutes of, what was quite frankly pure…

Ireland, a land of milk and honey, not just in terms of its economy but has embraced mature liberalism by removing Article 8 of the Irish constitution. It had also become a socially liberal and a politically progressive region of the EU, free from the scourge of anti-migrant populism. Varadkar who recently resigned was the…

After hearing about the killing of 7 aid workers working for World Central Kitchen by the IDF, my mood became sombre and low. This incident is yet another of many tragedies that have taken place since October 7th, when Hamas militants massacred 1200 innocent Israeli civilians. What started days later as a war against Hamas,…

I have just listened to a BBC podcast about the horrors, the lives, the resilience, and the bravery of Jews in the Warsaw Getto. I was aware of this crime against humanity but was not aware of how this horror was recorded. The horrors of this period were chronicled in numerous documents and memoirs called…

I I attended several events at the 2024 Imagine Belfast week and to be fair, enjoyed each one. The first was “Fairer but Smaller”, an event based on a book called “Enough is Plenty. The whole premise was that the solution to the climate crisis was the need in simple terms, to reduce consumption in…

The country’s current excuse for a Prime Minister has no political spine, no integrity, no leadership qualities, no plan for the country’s future, no vision, no industrial strategy, no economic competence, no professionalism, no accountability and finally, no understanding of the lived experience of the many who are suffering under this cost-of-living crisis. Let us…

As I watch the relentless ethnic cleansing of Gazans by the IDF and a more subtle version of the same being carried out by Ben Gavir and his settler friends in the Westbank, all overseen by Israel’s version of Voldemort in the guise of Netanyahu, my faith in humanity is at an all-time low. Firstly,…

I In November 2022 in my blog called “Mr President” when the red wave at the mid-terms failed to materialise I suggested politely, that this was the moment to start the succession planning process to find a Democrat from a younger generation to run for President in 2024, fearing neither Trump ( who is now…