One of the key moments of the 2011 Leveson Inquiry into press standards came when the Daily Mail’s then-editor, Paul Dacre, took to the witness box to accuse Hugh Grant of pursuing “mendacious smears driven by a hatred of the media”. Dacre was responding to Grant’s allegation that a 2007Continue Reading
Riot police blocking the road to protesters in Minsk, Belarus, in August 2020. iVazoUSky/Shutterstock Belarus could be edging closer towards more active participation in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko recently announced that troops from Belarus and Russia would form a new joint regional grouping near the borderContinue Reading
Many Ukrainians are facing the prospect of a winter of power outages after about 30% of the country’s power stations were knocked out in just over a week. The deputy head of the president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, has warned that the country needs to be prepared for “a hard winter”.Continue Reading
The Irish women’s football team has qualified for their first Fifa World Cup, beating Scotland 1-0. In the aftermath of the match, the team celebrated by cheering and chanting in the locker room, including the line “Ooh, ah, up the ‘Ra”, from The Celtic Symphony. Originally performed by The WolfeContinue Reading
Alamy/PA In a night emblematic of Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, confusion reigned in parliament as an opposition day motion on the contentious issue of fracking became a confidence vote in her leadership. Labour MPs reported seeing Conservatives being manhandled and “bullied” into the chamber by government whips – who reportedlyContinue Reading
Many factors combined to cause Liz Truss’s demise but it was a night of chaos in the British parliament that triggered her resignation. Events in the House of Commons on October 19 made it clear that the prime minister had lost control. Conservative MPs were called into a vote thatContinue Reading
Given where most of the fighting and dying is taking place it is easy to think that the current European security crisis is primarily about Ukraine. This tendency is reinforced by the fact that Russia and the west are keen to keep the war limited to Ukrainian territory. Vladimir Putin’sContinue Reading
Liz Truss resigned as the Conservative party leader just 45 days after being elected to that position. She was forced out by her backbenchers because of a disastrously misjudged mini-budget, concerns about her competency and a catastrophic collapse in the Conservatives’ poll ratings. She is now destined to become theContinue Reading
Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has urged women who receive unwanted messages to contact gardaí after a man who sent the TD sexually explicit videos during the 2020 General Election campaign was handed a suspended one-year prison sentence. The Dublin TD was present at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court onContinue Reading
When the US goes to the polls on November 8, it won’t just be a test for those politicians seeking re-election, but also of President Joe Biden’s popularity. The midterms take place every two years in the middle of a four-year presidential term. They include elections for all 435 seatsContinue Reading
