Aside from his foray into literature, Martin's meeting with Xi Jinping will certainly draw attention, especially given its spontaneity. Its safe to say in the current geopolitical climate, Martin's mission to the Forbidden City will certainly draw the interest of the Trump administration in Washington.

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5 January 2026

The liberal multilateral world is ending not because it was defeated by a rival vision, but because it could no longer reproduce the conditions that made it believable.

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4 January 2026

I’m back in the Philippines, where I’ve lived for 30-plus years. Some of the fine traits of these people are vividly on display: the hearty “welcome back”, the touching reunions, the corny jokes. But even more impressive has been the […]

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3 January 2026

British society is obsessed with OnlyFans, migrants, and abortion. This degeneracy has destroyed the country, and threatens Ireland by proximity. Ireland must not fall for the tricks of British spooks who desire to undermine Irish sovereignty and profit from spreading British social pathogens.

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30 December 2025

1926-1938: The System, Withdrawal and Transfer of Authority The Sinn Féin that emerged from the split of 1926 did not mistake its survival for success. It had retained a justification without a viable constituency only a year after the split […]

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27 December 2025

1904-1923: From Strategy to Doctrine and into Practice Irish Republicanism did not begin with Sinn Féin, nor did Sinn Féin initially speak in its language. By the time the party was founded, a Republican tradition already existed, organised most coherently […]

The post J. J. O’Kelly, Brian O’Higgins and Sinn Féin’s Suppressed Tradition: Part 1 appeared first on The Burkean.

23 December 2025

Prague’s Populist Paladin The boom could be back in Prague with Czech voters opting to return neoliberal businessman turned populist kingpin Andrej Babiš to power despite desultory claims of Russian interference. A Slovak who made his fortune creating the agri-chemical […]

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17 December 2025

The meat and poultry plants of Tyrone and Armagh are rarely discussed in polite political debate. They should be. Within them lies a concentrated example of how modern Ireland’s economic model actually functions. It functions by prioritising speed over safety, […]

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16 December 2025

If the state succeeds in scaling its systems, reception centres, and so on, Ireland could stabilise its asylum regime and integrate smoothly into the EU’s new migration framework. If it fails, the country risks slipping into an uncomfortable halfway house between a fracturing EU and a soon to be Reform-led UK never mind the question of the North.

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10 December 2025

A long-running criminal case against former Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MEP Gunnar Beck has collapsed in spectacular form at a German district court, bringing an end to a series of accusations that had shifted dramatically in scope over two years.  […]

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3 December 2025