Category: International

Ireland’s Foreign Policy Stagnation on Display at UCD Event

As a consequence of an increasingly unstable international situation throughout the past decade, contemporary European foreign policy has begun to change. Since the end of the Second World War, and exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, European interests...

/ 30/09/2022

Victory in Rome: A Report from the Fratelli Press Room

A report from a Burkean foreign correspondent on the Continent. "Because when I am only a number. When I no longer have an identity or roots. Then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The...

/ 28/09/2022

Inside the German Fedposting Machine

The Bundersrepublik of Germany’s counter terror operations against the online far right were partially divulged this week in reportage by the left leaning Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. Focused upon the exploits of an unnamed female officer for the Federal Office for...

/ 23/09/2022

Charles the Third: Britain Takes its Final Form

The British long 20th century can be said to have come to an end this week with the death of Elizabeth the Second at her Balmoral residence.  A lifetime of service, giving an air of monarchical normality to a nation...

/ 12/09/2022

The Yank: Lessons from a Republican Gunrunner

There are few books these days that I can find myself lost in, most suffer from feeling derivative, asinine, or just plain boring. Everyone thinks they can be a writer. So I was pleasantly surprised when I sat down to...

/ 09/09/2022

Ortega y Gasset: Life After America?

The first part of this reflection on Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses is available here. Americanisation & the European Masses. The twenty-first century has seen the corruption of national life as a direct consequence of the continued influence...

/ 26/08/2022

A Car Bomb in Moscow: Who Killed Daria Dugin?

Last Saturday evening in Moscow, the daughter of the Russian philosopher and public figure Aleksandr Dugin, Daria “Dasha” Dugina, was killed in a car explosion. With few to no sources claiming that the explosion was purely the result of a...

/ 23/08/2022

The SPLC’s Irish Debut

Another weekend and another acronym as the Sunday Independent played host to yet another counter extremism think tank and their reportage on the dreaded yet still unformed ‘Irish far right’. The adroitly named Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE)...

/ 22/08/2022

Ortega y Gasset: Man Against the Masses

José Ortega y Gasset, despite being one of the most renowned Spanish academics of the twentieth century, is an author whose corpus is unfortunately overlooked by modern anglophone right-wing circles. Ortega’s writings are of particular interest to a rightist analysis,...

/ 21/08/2022

The Leviathans of Islamabad: Will Imran Khan Endure?

The following first appeared on the Substack "Tadhg Pidgeon" and is syndicated with permission The government of Pakistan is a poison chalice, yet Imran Khan marches on towards it.  Throughout and following this year’s constitutional crisis Khan has refused to...

/ 08/08/2022