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Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012


Satire on Irish Left Review

The Satire section contains all satirical articles. As Lenny Bruce says: “Satire is tragedy plus time”.

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Che Guevara Lives!*

Communists are even in Paradise. Is a big disgrace!
As my regular reader will know, the southern part of the island of Fuerteventura is comprise of the province of Jandía, which is all very beautiful and mountainous and also with the long broad beaches where often are there the surfers, the windsurfers, the beachsurfers, and [...]

Nazis vs. Zombies!

Hi guys. Which way to the topless beach volleyball?
Events have been take a turn for the würst since we were last chattering. For one thing we have had nothing during the past week escept for the wind, snow and heil here in the beautiful glorious Las Canarias islands, which have made it very difficult for [...]

Dublin Psychogeographical Society Report 2009: Part Two

Trinity College: Made famous by the rowdiness and wanton irrational prejudices of its fellows in the 17th century, Trinity College has in more recent years declined into a sad, dilapidated caricature of its former self, like an Ian Paisley with Alzheimer’s. It is now famous for its illuminated manuscripts and for being the location of [...]

Iran vs Honduras - A subtle difference

The furore over Mahmoud Ahmajinedad’s apparent success in last months Iranian presidential elections tells us a few important things about how the dominant media feels democratic deficiencies, alleged or otherwise, should be reported.
According to the Irish Times Iran’s “suffocating theocracy”1 sustained a crisis of legitimacy “after it lost the trust of millions of Iranians”2 following [...]

Be Vigilante!!

Look Out! There are Thieving Foreingers Everywhere!
There was a terrible loud huge banging on my front door that wake me up last Thursday afternoon which make me think for certain that the anarchist police had come for me and which therefore make me rush naked from my daybed and flush down the toilet [...]

Dublin Psychogeographical Society Report 2009: Part One

Following on from the unalloyed success of the 2006 convention, the member of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society unanimously agreed that no further meetings should take place until all temptation to build on that success had been extinguished in full. The call to hubris thus went unheeded for two entire years, even though demand was such [...]

Paris is a Four-Letter Word!!

After they read my objective and accurate description of France last week on this very site, the French Tourist Board was being so impressed that they invite me to come to their country’s capital, Paris, to see for myself how much efforts they have been making in the past seven days in order to improve [...]

Is All About the Race!

Is Not About the Yank!
In much the same way that the queen of England thinks that her country is smell of fresh paint, so all professional cycle jockeys are thinking that France is smell of Domesto and ¡Cillit Bof! This is because every year, when the Tour de France is passing through, the towns and [...]

Bulls 14 Idiots 0!

As is traditional at this time every year, the pious devout ordinary peoples of Spain are enjoying the Chasing of the Foreigners in Pamplona during the festival of Saint Fermin, a much-revered individual in these parts who was martyred after being dragged through the streets by a bull.  Some of his friends had been telling [...]

Libertarianism, by Kevin

Libertarianism is brilliant. Some people think that it is not brilliant, but they are wrong. It is.
What Libertarianism is, is this: It is a philosophy of the world which holds that everyone should be allowed to do what they like without any interference from anyone else and so long as they do not [...]

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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