Ireland’s populist insurgency

The first thing that strikes you about Dublin is how different the political stickers on lamp posts are: while in Belfast the overriding theme is either pro-Palestine or Irish unity, in Dublin’s central O’Connell Street, it is  “Defund The NGO …

China is not the answer to Nato

The timing of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Belgrade yesterday was far from accidental: exactly 25 years before, Nato forces bombed the city’s Chinese embassy during Operation Allied Force, the two-and-half month campaign against what was then the Federal Republic …

Crush the Flu d’État

As a practicing physician, I have had numerous conversations over the years with people caught in dysfunctional relationships. While it is often best to refrain from “telling” such persons the “right” course of action, one notable exception is when the …