The acceptance of Sinn Fein and HDP as legitimate actors by the wider community is an important opportunity, but one that has to be welcomed by other political actors.
More and more voters are no longer willing to accept a political status quo that makes doing “everything else” contingent on upholding the dominant economic order.
Whether the UK leaves the EU or not, and no matter under
what terms, the fight to uphold higher standards in public debate is a vital
task for a human-centred world.
Ireland has the necessary means to invest in cleaner energy and should
be flying way beyond our self-set climate accord measures, yet we continually
fail them.
Brexit is fuelled by an English nationalism as crude and self-deluded as Irish nationalism used to be. The best response is to follow Ireland's journey to an inclusive, pluralist vision of patriotism.
British and Irish parliamentarians call for major changes to unregulated social media campaigning following openDemocracy revelations – but too late for Friday’s historic vote
