Happy Birthday Chris.
http://nabidana.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Chris.m4a Happy Birthday to Chris. I maded this. The fans on my computer are in ‘someone left the heat on’ mode. Soz. You Are Old. By Ben Archibald. You...
View ArticleAn application to become national security advisor
Dear President Trump, Thank you for the opportunity to apply for the position of National Security Advisor – an important role at a vitally important time in American and world history. My National...
View ArticleThe statement Enda Kenny should have given
When a political crisis occurs, it’s vitally important for the principals to take a clear decision on whether they need to address the issue or see where it’s running – so it seems. There is a third...
View ArticleQuestions about the UK General Election
There’s something about a general election, particularly one called by a strident Prime Minister. This election, which I hope will be decisively won by the Conservative Party, has made conservatives...
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Day 7
Wednesday 25th April Morning Briefing Some people are travelling the country throughout this general election with their party leaders and senior politicians, trying to win the fucking thing. Project...
View ArticleDay 8 – the Ocho.
Some people are travelling the country throughout this general election with their party leaders and senior politicians, trying to win the fucking thing. I will give a firmly (disgracefully) biased...
View ArticleWho Governs? May 2017.
The Who Governs Podcast, in all its glory. 22 elections covered in a way too tedious for the Economist and too detailed for the White House. USA, Iran, France, The Marshall Islands, the Republic of...
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Hating politicians
Looking at Facebook and other social media, there has been a sprouting in recent years of angry, stupid websites dedicated to the breathless criticism of everything politicians and ‘the political...
View ArticleThe DUP
It's a scandal that Theresa May threw away a parliamentary majority on a shot-to-nothing.Click To Tweet When the music’s over, turn out the lights, Jim Morrison intones, as Kensington (fucking...
View ArticleWho Governs? June 2017 Edition
A quick synopsis of the UK General Election, prepared by ‘hateful tory scum’. Your mileage may vary. http://nabidana.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Who-Governs-June-11-2017_mixdown.mp3 This six...
View ArticleGetting out in front of it
There are a number of things Theresa May could do to show she cares.…Click To Tweet Theresa May has done everything exactly correctly, 100% by the book. Surveying the catastrophe of Grenfell tower,...
View ArticleTurn off Activate. Reactivate the Vermin Club.
The sorts of people likely to turn to the Conservative Party (and more importantly actually vote Conservative) in the UK are not the sort of feckless mouth-breathing snowflake cretins who flock to the...
View ArticleDoing a Rees Mogg
Let’s first be clear that if Rees Mogg is the answer, the question has been poorly posed or over-constructed. He will not be leader of the Conservative Party unless something very stupid happens. His...
View ArticleMy Reshuffle
Either there’ll be a heave now or there’ll be a heave later. There doesn’t need to be. There’s still an opportunity for Theresa May to create a strong and stable cabinet and manage the process of...
View ArticleThe Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation
In a strange moment of calm, I decided to throw together a new “Who Governs?”, but then decided it’d have to be a bit different. Imagine a world after a snap General Election, in which Jeremy Corbyn...
View ArticleBrexit – a reflection on an unhappy marriage
TL;DR: Brexit is a good thing; we should be throwing a fucking party. The price of freedom is to want for nothing more. We should be ready to walk away from a bad deal. Click To Tweet Hurting Ireland...
View ArticleRegulatory alignment
The Brexit deal which nobody with any commonsense expected to be reached yesterday fell partially because of a spooked DUP who saw the Irish press and commentariat crowing about an Irish diploamtic...
View ArticleThe German and the timely exit.
Setting aside the border conundrum for a moment*, let us consider the bombastic bollocksology of our old friend Martin Schultz, he of the SDP, Germany’s answer to Labour. Herr Schultz today declared...
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Hating politicians
Looking at Facebook and other social media, there has been a sprouting in recent years of angry, stupid websites dedicated to the breathless criticism of everything politicians and ‘the political...
View ArticleThe state of them – a few minutes accidentally spent with No campaigners in...
Today I had the good fortune to bump into a group of women running the ‘Lawyers for Choice’ stall outside Clery’s in Dublin’s O’Connell Street. I opted to pop over and say hello with a view to taking...
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