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05 March 2010

Brown and Cameron’s hangdog looks

Is Britain headed for a hung parliament, asks JASON WALSH – and does it matter?

24 February 2010

Ireland’s incredible shrinking (public) sphere

forth editor JASON WALSH gives his personal view on why nothing matters in Ireland today – and suggests how we might change that

03 February 2010

forth elsewhere: New republic

The endless and farcical devolution talks at Stormont should remind us of the need to replace the exhausted institutions, both north and south, writes forth editor JASON WALSH in Spiked

30 November 2009

Abortion wars: the withdrawal method

Philosopher Stephen Rainey reports on the withdrawal of abortion advice in the North

Modern misanthropy

Life is not just a litany of human suffering. forth punctures a few misanthropic modern myths

Murphy report – Church and state guilty but don’t criminalise everyday life

The appalling abuse of children by Catholic priests should not be allowed to make children of us all, says Jason Walsh

25 November 2009

Two views on real politics: part one – the civic space

In this, the first part of a discussion in which Owen Polley and Jason Walsh outline their views on what real politics would look like, Polley argues for the creation of a unionism freed of the fetters of identity

16 November 2009

Leader column: Let’s politicise the economy

There are no solutions to the economic crisis because no-one will think politically

09 November 2009

forth elsewhere: Fixing Irish politics

What would the entry of one million unionists and 700,000 Northern nationalists do to Irish politics? Fix it.
forth editor Jason Walsh writing in the current edition of Humanism Ireland