World View: Europe’s centre-left makes a comeback of sortsPandemic boosts hybrid social democracy as it battles far-right and radical leftSat Oct 02 2021 - 01:00
World View: Connectivity is the new battlefieldThe internet, border controls, supply chains and migration are the new weapons in our globalised worldSat Sept 18 2021 - 01:00
Little sign of revived relationship between US and EUBiden’s priorities are domestic, his foreign policy set for his home audienceSat Sept 04 2021 - 01:00
World View: The Merkel method only got Europe so farDecent, pragmatic, steady-handed German leader recoiled from Europe’s biggest threatsSat Aug 07 2021 - 01:00
If the pandemic tells us how the world will deal with global warming, we’re in big troubleCan world powers learn lessons from this event and apply them to global warming?Sat Jul 24 2021 - 01:00
World View: Don’t be so sure that Covid will change the worldEvidence so far suggests pandemic has merely reinforced people’s existing viewsSat Jul 10 2021 - 01:00
Uefa can’t continue to play politics by its own rulesPublic expectations of sports and the organisations that run them are changingSat Jun 26 2021 - 01:00
Creeping authoritarianism inside EU is a real threat to the blocSwift response to Belarus contrasts with EU’s inability to deal with threats to democracy in Hungary and PolandSat May 29 2021 - 01:00
UN delivers its customary response to Israeli-Palestinian conflict – silenceWorld View: Failure of international bodies to speak with one voice works to Israel’s advantageSat May 15 2021 - 01:00
Joe Biden’s Everything Doctrine belies a radical shiftThe ‘American First’ legacy lives on in ways the Biden White House might not like to admitSat May 01 2021 - 01:00
Pandemic has shown the EU’s resilience, not its frailtyEurope’s Covid story has not yet been written, and it is possible a longer view might be more forgivingSat Apr 17 2021 - 01:00
The EU needs a single market for newsThe biggest sources of EU news are based outside the bloc – and that distorts how the continent sees itselfSat Apr 03 2021 - 01:00
Brexit blinds Britain to AstraZeneca’s blundersLack of transparency on Oxford-developed vaccine fuel for European and US cautionSat Mar 20 2021 - 01:00
How the fortunes of Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Barnier divergedWill the man who Sarkozy once said had ‘the charisma of an oyster’ run for the Élysée?Sat Mar 06 2021 - 01:00
Brexit is done but the rows have only just begunConvulsions of past weeks suggest forces unleashed by 2016 vote still shape continent’s affairsSat Feb 06 2021 - 01:00
Biden may call for bipartisan truce – but he should prepare for warIn Washington bipartisan deal-making is about as useful as knowing how to use a faxSat Jan 23 2021 - 01:00
Violent, shambolic, inept: A grimly fitting finale to the Trump yearsWorld view: The ragtag mob storming the US Capitol should be taken deadly seriouslySat Jan 09 2021 - 01:00
Anna O’Sullivan died of Covid-19 in May, just shy of her 100th birthday2020 in review: The virus hit people who witnessed the past century’s defining momentsSat Dec 26 2020 - 06:00
Erasmus exchanges another senseless casualty of BrexitWorld View: At the root of British antipathy lies a fear it is a dark plot to indoctrinate the young in the ideology of Euro-superstatismSat Dec 26 2020 - 01:00
Bad leaders the world over hope vaccine will mitigate political damageThe vainglorious will see vaccine success as an easy way to recover their standingSat Dec 12 2020 - 01:00
World View: How will global far-right adapt without US figurehead?Internationalists hope Biden victory heralds wider fall in far-right fortunesSat Nov 28 2020 - 01:00
How Ireland's judges are made: a glimpse inside a closed systemThe unorthodox process for choosing Séamus Woulfe has shone a light on a defective systemSat Nov 28 2020 - 01:00
Séamus Woulfe’s selection for Supreme Court 'differed from normal practice'Ex-government insiders indicate taoiseach would usually discuss candidates for roleThu Nov 19 2020 - 01:00
Deliberations on the appointment of Woulfe were highly circumscribedDysfunctional system for appointing Supreme Court judges is in desperate need of an overhaulSat Nov 14 2020 - 01:00
Vaccine nationalism will put poorest countries at back of the queueWorld View: International scientific co-operation on Covid-19 not replicated by governmentsSat Nov 14 2020 - 01:00
Appointment of judges remains a haphazard, opaque processEven most Ministers tend not to see how a Government arrives at selections for judicial rolesFri Nov 13 2020 - 02:54
Cabinet not told judges applied for post filled by Séamus WoulfeAt least three judges wrote to Government seeking job taken by former attorney generalFri Nov 13 2020 - 02:04
American democracy is in peril – and the rot goes far deeper than TrumpPublic faith in the system has been eroding for decades but accelerated after 2008 crashSat Oct 31 2020 - 01:00
World View: Trump is symptom not cause of US’s worst flawsDysfunction and decay in American democracy are harbingers of waning authoritySat Oct 17 2020 - 01:00
World View: Africa’s low Covid-19 toll shatters perception biasCoronavirus disaster for continent avoided for range of social and experiential reasonsSat Oct 03 2020 - 01:00
The days of ‘normal’ US foreign policy are over – and Joe Biden will not change thatWorld View: America’s inward turn predates Donald Trump and will outlast himSat Sept 19 2020 - 01:00
Why the EU is going cold on ChinaThe five-country visit of China’s chief diplomat have underlined how relations with the EU have deteriorated in just a few monthsSat Sept 05 2020 - 01:00
Why the Germans Do it Better: A lively, affectionate portraitBook review: A lament on the state of contemporary, growth-stunted Britain as well as a paean to GermanyMon Aug 31 2020 - 00:00
As the world remembers Hiroshima, we face a new nuclear arms raceWorld View: Risk of nuclear weapons being used is higher now than during the cold warSat Aug 08 2020 - 01:00
World View: Russian influence in Britain is deeply embeddedToo late to untangle Kremlin web woven around London in last two decadesSat Jul 25 2020 - 01:00
History will not look kindly on mask holdoutsPerceiving mandatory face coverings as ‘state interference’ is dangerous lunacySat Jul 18 2020 - 01:00
Will Israel seize the moment to bury the two-state solution?World view: Netanyahu’s plan has provoked anger and alarm but less uproar than expectedSat Jun 27 2020 - 01:15
How the seat was won: Inside the fight to put Ireland on the UN Security CouncilIt was a 15-year campaign. In the end, most of the Middle East and swathes of Africa voted for usSat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
Statues are not a neutral narration of complex eventsWorld View: The decision to build a public monument is always a political actSat Jun 13 2020 - 01:00
Remaking Ireland: Five positives from the pandemicThe crisis poses huge threats but also shows us ways forward in health, housing, work and lifestyleSat May 30 2020 - 06:00
How Covid-19 could transform our citiesCovid-19 is recalibrating urban living but capitals endure as exciting laboratoriesSat May 30 2020 - 01:00
Will the post-pandemic world be ‘the same, just a bit worse’?Coronavirus will cause irreversible change, but whether for good or bad is up for grabsSat May 16 2020 - 01:00
Blood filtration device shows promise in coronavirus struggleSeraph 100 removes viruses and bacteria with beads and may be produced in IrelandThu May 07 2020 - 02:43
World View: West failed to learn from Asia and Africa on coronavirusRich regions dithered while others, scarred by Sars and Mers, swung into containmentSat May 02 2020 - 01:00
World View: Politicians must not hide behind scientistsPandemics require ethical and moral decisions, not just mathematical modelsSat Apr 18 2020 - 01:00
Covid-19 has rehabilitated global collaboration, not undermined itThe effort to suppress the virus will ultimately only be a strong as its weakest linkSat Apr 04 2020 - 01:00
Good government tops ideology in fight against coronavirusThe states best placed to fight the virus are those that prepare, plan and learnSat Mar 21 2020 - 01:00
We have a vaccine for the coronavirus: being richWorld View: Threat posed by Covid-19 a function of social class, profession and wealth of nationsSat Mar 07 2020 - 00:02
We must beware Big Tech companies seeking regulationWorld View: In pushing for digital regulation, such firms hope to shape it in their own interestsSat Feb 22 2020 - 01:00
Danger lurks in complacency about Ireland's place in the EUWorld View: Lessons to be learned through the experience of defeated RemainersSat Feb 08 2020 - 01:00
