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.
Si los lideran los ciudadanos, como en Irlanda, los referendos enriquecen la democracia. Pero ¿qué ocurre si los lideran las élites políticas, como en el Reino Unido o en Colombia? English
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.
Este año algo ha cambiado en la forma en que hablamos del aborto. Se puede sentir en la calle, en Twitter, en los medios de comunicación… Algo ha pasado y ya no hay marcha atrás. English Português
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.