Parisian café culture in the late eighteenth century had spelled doom for the Bourbons long before the guillotine fell on King Louis. London’s “penny universities” performed much the same service for poor King Charles. No doubt conscious of the historical […]

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27 May 2026

Starmer’s reset with the European Union is not romance. It is repair-work. Britain wants easier trade, smoother regulation, security co-operation, a veterinary agreement here, a goods arrangement there and all the little devices by which a state may edge back towards a settlement while preserving enough ground to say it has not retreated. British liberalism wants more than this. It wants absolution. For it, Europe is not merely a market but almost a lost certificate of civilisation. To be near Brussels again is to feel respectable again.

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25 May 2026

Noel Thomas: Independent Ireland’s Opening in Galway West The more immediate electoral threat to the old party system in Galway West comes from Noel Thomas and Independent Ireland. Thomas is not an outsider in the sense of being unknown locally: […]

The post In Galway West Ireland’s Fractured Populist Right Begins to Find Form appeared first on The Burkean.

20 May 2026

In his far-ranging Gript essay castigating the proposed new Leaving Cert history syllabus, the Iona’s Institute’s David Quinn posits that the syllabus carries an explicit anti Catholic agenda, where the students are shoe-horned into believing that the Catholic Church and groups […]

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19 May 2026

Dublin Central will go to the polls on 22 May to elect one TD, following the vacancy left by Paschal Donohoe. The official notice of poll lists fourteen candidates, including Malachy Steenson, standing as a non-party candidate, alongside PSF (officially […]

The post Dublin Central By Election: Is the Inner City Primed for Migration Backlash? appeared first on The Burkean.

18 May 2026

The State should stop punishing ordinary investment and calling the workaround reform Barra Roantree and others have already made the economic case against Simon Harris’s proposed savings scheme. Their objections are relatively straightforward and well-founded: the scheme is being presented as a […]

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15 May 2026

For "polite society" or the segregated suburbs, the gangster becomes a vessel through which forbidden traits can be experienced indirectly - aggression, ruthlessness, rebellion, freedom from rules. Gangsta rap offers a safe, commodified view into a world they do not experience firsthand.

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11 May 2026

Some time ago, Richie Allen on his podcast, played excerpts of a drag queen being interviewed on a national UK radio station. He made various comments during the interview, but, apart from other views he shared, his refrain was the […]

The post Why the Department of Education’s Gender Mission Creep Matters appeared first on The Burkean.

10 May 2026

On 24th and 25th April 2026, Provisional Sinn Féin gathered in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast for an Ard Fheis that revealed much of the party’s present condition. This was not the gathering of a revolutionary Republican movement nor even […]

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7 May 2026

A tactical media-NGO operation to kick the Irish government smartly in the shins over the continued processing and sale of Russian-owned alumina at Aughinish Alumina has left certain officials sweating and for good reason. Joint reporting by the Irish Times’ […]

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7 May 2026