The first World War: Too much to hope?Redmond’s gamble that Irish nationalism’s support for empire in first World War would cement home rule proved terribly wrong, but Great War was still ‘our war’Wed Oct 22 2014 - 00:00
Tories target European Court of Human RightsOpinion: ‘The court and convention were largely products of British/Winston Churchill’s post-War desire to bind wayward Europeans into a legal rights order that came up to British standards’Sat Oct 18 2014 - 00:01
Blasphemy will surely quietly go the way of other quaint legal relicsOpinion: A disturbed British national, facing a death sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan was shot and seriously wounded in his jail cellMon Oct 06 2014 - 14:35
Scotland votes No, England gets the revolutionCameron, deeply concerned by likely English backlash, promises fast reformsSun Sept 21 2014 - 12:04
Nato offers security blanket to countries in Russia’s orbitOpinion: Summit marked a turning point – back to defending Europe from a potential adversarySat Sept 06 2014 - 00:01
Doubts raised about Scottish post-separation currencyOpinion: Debates on Scotland’s independence and UK’s relationship with Europe show contradictionsSun Aug 10 2014 - 12:01
The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Atef Abu SaifPaperback reviewSat Aug 02 2014 - 01:00
Blaming the EU over Ukraine easy, but misguidedA familiar Cold War rhetoric to much of the discussion from our anti-war/neutrality lobbySat Jul 26 2014 - 01:48
Irish seem lost for words on Scottish independenceAnalysis: There is a politically unmentionable calculation that Ireland is best served by the preservation of the UnionFri Jul 18 2014 - 01:00
Kurdish problem is fixing itselfOpinion: A unilateral declaration by Barzani would be a mistakeSun Jul 13 2014 - 01:00
‘I’m voting “Aye”, notionally, reservations notwithstanding’Opinion: What Westminster can give it can also take away, delay, prevaricate onSat Jun 28 2014 - 13:02
Welcome to the club of reigning royalsOpinion: Twelve European monarchies surviveSun Jun 15 2014 - 12:01
Tensions rise in East Asia as China flexes its musclesOpinion: Arguments over territorial claims could trigger military face-offsSun Jun 01 2014 - 12:01
A resounding victory to indifferenceOpinion: Parliamentarians hoped to boost the ailing profile and legitimacy of the European ParliamentTue May 27 2014 - 01:01
The war to end all war“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”– Otto von Bismarck (1888)Wed May 14 2014 - 01:00
A surge of anti-EU populism in campaignWorld View: Sixty per cent of voters tend not to trust the EUSun May 04 2014 - 12:01
Voting in a time of turmoilWorld View: Elections can heal divisions or fuel conflictSun Apr 20 2014 - 12:01
Annexation of Crimea is the act of a bullying powerOpinion: When should minorities have a right to secede?Sun Mar 23 2014 - 12:41
West has only limited options in UkraineOpinion: There is a danger of exaggerating the power and the threat posed by PutinFri Mar 07 2014 - 17:46
MEPs trying to woo disillusioned votersOpinion: A low poll could sink Schulz’s gambitSat Feb 22 2014 - 00:01
Memorialising runs the risk of becoming politically toxicOpinion: Recent incidents have blurred the line between commemoration and celebrationSat Feb 08 2014 - 00:01
New York, New York – from Bloomberg to de Blasio, it’s a tale of two citiesOpinion: Bloomberg has left the city cleaner, safer and healthier, but far from equalSat Jan 04 2014 - 00:01
Turkey’s governing AK party embroiled in internal strife over corruption claimsOpinion: Erdogan is likely to announce a major cabinet reshuffleSat Dec 21 2013 - 00:01
Writers of the world call for end to mass online surveillanceRoddy Doyle, Colum McCann and Colm Tóibín among 560 signatories to international appealTue Dec 10 2013 - 01:00
Sino-Japanese tensions more a matter of muscle-flexing than a lead-up to warOpinion: China and South Korea remain angry at Japan’s refusal to face up to its pastFri Dec 06 2013 - 17:22
Old foreign policy advice to speak softly and carry a big stick will do for IranOpinion: Obama has refused pressure to assume the worst about Tehran’s ambitionsFri Nov 22 2013 - 18:58
Dumping the euro to save Europe seems harsh – and the outcome uncertainOpinion: A French diplomat has proposed a radical amputation to save the life of the EUSat Nov 09 2013 - 06:37
Legal moves to further protect foetuses threaten rights of US mothersOpinion: Legislation is used principally against poor and African AmericansSat Oct 26 2013 - 00:01
Speech at United Nations sees Obama’s and America’s return to realpolitikWorld View: Obama is pragmatically adjusting to a new realitySat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
Wilful city of savage dreamers...Locked Out seeks to recall in all its complexity the 1913 events that marked the coming of age in Dublin of the Irish labour movementWed Sept 11 2013 - 00:00
Miliband should not revisit the past if he wants Labour to count in the futureOpinion: Tories still have work to do not to be seen as the party of the ‘toffs’Sun Aug 18 2013 - 00:01
Political Islam now in a state of crisisThe movement is far from dead, but it is rooted in an ageing, dying cultureFri Jul 05 2013 - 19:12
Italy’s ‘anti-political’ rebel seems to have a liking for the uno duce, una voce doctrineYet another political bubble bursts as movement’s demagoguery exposedSat Jun 22 2013 - 06:00
Abe the first serving Japanese PM to visit Ireland since independenceCo-operation between Japan, China and South Korea more important in the face of North Korea’s ‘provocative words’Wed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
Talk of being masters of our fate is just guffWorld View: ‘Sovereign’ is one of the most abused words in the Irish political lexicon, a sacred cowSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
‘When Ulster’s position was challenged ...’William Smyth worked to defend the union from the threat of Home Rule – a fact not lost on his adversariesThu May 23 2013 - 10:00
Political abuse of charity status rife in USWorld View: In American politics they play by big money rulesSat May 18 2013 - 02:00
US media storm over murder trial of abortionist Kermit GosnellAnti-abortion pundits have berated ‘pro-abortion mainstream media’ for ‘deliberately ignoring’ caseSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
Putting manners on the merchants of deathCampaigners say one person dies every minute as a result of armed violenceSat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00
Dividing the spoils in Kenyan electionWORLD VIEW: The bloody aftermath in 2007-08 of Kenya’s last presidential election, in which more than 1,100 died and 660,000…Sat Mar 02 2013 - 00:00
Gloves off in Scottish sovereignty debateWORLD VIEW: A lot of skirmishes, noise and thunder off, but at last the campaign is onSat Feb 16 2013 - 00:00
Life, liberty and 20oz servings of Coca-ColaWORLD VIEW: Most of us find little problem enumerating basic democratic rights: the rights to vote, to organise, to free speech…Sat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
Obama has won only temporary respiteWORLD VIEW: Ostensibly, the apocalypse – the temporarily averted fiscal cliff crisis – was all about finally getting to grips…Sat Jan 05 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThere’s a note in the 1856 journal of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about an unusual assignation for a poet: “Took the boys…Tue Dec 11 2012 - 00:00
Moment of truth for parties of the rightWORLD VIEW : The party, one commentator observed, faces the threat of extinction or even worse, becoming no more than the party…Sat Nov 24 2012 - 00:00
Story of Malema reflects sad state of South AfricaWorld View: He had to have a pad in the capital, he said, and so found a three-bed house in a nice areaSat Nov 10 2012 - 00:00
Where battle was won and lostElectoral trends: What was most remarkable was that Barack Obama did it all again, repeating and even exceeding his 2008 electoral…Thu Nov 08 2012 - 00:00
Road to hell beckons as EU's dangerous drift continuesWORLD VIEW: THE CONSENSUS, it appeared, was that we are “on the road to hell”Sat Oct 13 2012 - 01:00
A case of politics in the courtroomWORLDVIEW: The US supreme court, perhaps even more than Congress, is ‘the decider’ of many political issuesSat Sept 29 2012 - 01:00
Israeli stance on Iran risks alienating USWORLD VIEW: Netanyahu’s pressure on Obama has exposed tensions over Iran’s nuclear programmeSat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
