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The cost of outrage

Mock outrage over Ivor Callely’s expense claims is a distraction from real politics, says JASON WALSH

Let’s kill ‘heritage Irish’

Get Irish off life support and into real life, says JASON WALSH

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  • ‘Governance’ without meaning

    The Northern assembly may as well be empty—its business certainly has no content, says OWEN POLLEY


    Family business, not affairs of state

    Revelations that 188 children have died in care tell us that the state is not capable of parenting—why is this a surprise, asks JASON WALSH


    Rome: Religion, decline and fall

    In the penultimate article in his series on the Roman empire, CHRIS GRAY examines the rise of christianity, the loss of the west and the transition to feudalism


    International waaah!

    Israel-Palestine

    Israel is not bad daddy, the Palestinians and protestors are not children and it is stupid to ask the EU, UN and other supra-national bodies to drop bombs on civilians heads, says JASON WALSH


    Rome: Expansion and upheaval

    Augustus

    CHRIS GRAY continues his series on the Roman empire with an examination of the troubled period of expansion from 31BCE-284CE


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