Author: Suneil Sharma
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As the World Polarises the Planet Burns
As we helplessly and hopelessly observe the world becoming more politically polarised, here and in Israel, the US, Spain, India, and the only place that seems to have missed out on this polarisation is Orwellian China. Brutal wars are going on in Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, and Mali. The new cold war is the stand-off between…
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Stop selling utopias: A bit of Objectivity and Nerdiness, Please!!!
New Ireland or Just the old one in Drag
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Dear Sam
In his recent article in Sunday Independent Sam McBride starts with an unexpected eugenic trope, that it was “Horny Catholics” that laid the foundation for Sinn Fein’s recent success. Sinn Fein’s success is more accurately a consequence of the post-Brexit antics of the DUP (Death of the Union Party), the demise of the SDLP as…
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Pivotal, Definitely Not
The outputs of reconciliation and peace-building ecosystem/industry have not and cannot be measured because the system and funding lines were designed to buy reconciliation. An interviewee asks “Are we settling for separation, rather than reconciliation? The answer is yes, in working-class areas, no, in middle-class areas. Those who have made a good living in this…
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Too Many by, 10
Yippee it’s the local government elections on the 18th of May. An event that is nearly as engaging as watching paint dry. The lamp posts have been defaced by banal graffiti like” politics that can work” and faces on posters that could rightly be deemed a driving hazard. Many of these new millennial faces will…
