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19 February 2010

The Greek disease

Whatever about the ‘necessity’ of austerity packages, anti-Greek sentiment is inflated by prejudice and unmasks EU bully-boy tactics

17 February 2010

The Euro economy in your pocket

As the Greek economy continues to tank many are wondering if joining the Euro was the right idea. JASON WALSH says it doesn’t matter which currency you have, what matters is how much of it you have in your pocket

18 January 2010

Western ‘Russophobia’ distorts understanding of Ukraine election

As the Ukrainian presidential election goes to round two, candidates’ “pro-Western” or “anti-Western” leanings are not what actually matters, says NATALIA ANTONOVA reporting from Ukraine

05 January 2010

An explosive state

We know airport security is a problem when European governments are planting plastic explosives on travellers, says JASON WALSH

02 January 2010

Irish exceptionalism: ‘We’re awful eejits, so we are’

Public life is still dominated by the idea that the Irish are unique – uniquely stupid – but there is nothing unique about Ireland. Isn’t it about time we admitted that, asks JASON WALSH

17 December 2009

Marketing myths

Both boosters and critics of capitalism should so a little more (free) market research. JASON WALSH crunches the numbers.

08 December 2009

States of independence: how liberal meddling destroyed both sovereignty and national liberation

With the international court of justice set to rule on Kosovo’s independence we can expect more secessionist movements – and a lot worse, says JASON WALSH

22 November 2009

A monumentally stupid row

A fashion shoot for an in-flight magazine taken at the Berlin Holocaust memorial was tastless and silly, but it was not anti-Semitic

18 November 2009

Ganley by association

Having worked for Declan Ganley is enough to raise not only eyebrows, but questions from politicians about fitness for office

11 October 2009

Sinn Farage?

imageUkip and Sinn Féin share a common gene-pool, says Patrick West

09 October 2009

Review: Ringside Seats by Robert Ramsay

If Robert Ramsay has his way unionists will continue continue to slide into cultural politics after republicans, threatening to undermine their entire project and show up their leaders as ‘wee dafties’.

Review by Jason Walsh

05 October 2009

Ireland votes Yes: It’s not just the economy

Ireland’s second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty had Eurocrats on the edge of their seat – but it was the national government’s problems of legitimacy that made the European Union look a lot more attractive.

By James Heartfield

‘Both sides indulged in scaremongering’

Jason Walsh reports from Dublin where it seems neither the Yes camp nor the No camp voted with much enthusiasm.

25 September 2009

A No vote will stop the drift to ‘undemocracy’

Fix the EU first, then we’ll talk about a constitution.

22 September 2009

What I hate about EU

Forget what British eurosceptics say, here are the real reasons why the EU is impossible to love.

21 September 2009

Voting by the backdoor

As Ireland approaches its second referendum on the Lisbon treaty the campaigning on both sides is becoming increasingly shrill, but if the EU was more open about its objectives it would face far less opposition.

10 August 2009

No voting

The Irish establishment has decided that the Lisbon Treaty must pass and so it is stifling public debate on the issue.

By Jason Walsh

Content producers of the world unite!

By focusing on consumption, both sides in the debate over illegal file-sharing ignore the value of creative labour.

By Jason Walsh

03 August 2009

The Libertas legacy

The Lisbon treaty debate is far from over but even with Declan Ganley gone it’s still worth looking at the establishment focus on him, says Jason Walsh