Random musings on
politics, journalism and writing.
A Recent Presentation
Translating political speech
“Keep on fighting” means “I’m gone in six months”. “Must be a wake-up call” means “I’m launching my leadership campaign”. “Cheating” means we’re so ego-centric and self important we will never understand why everyone doesn’t love us.
Irish Times Columnist on a strange week for the monarchy:
“The answer is that even constitutional monarchies developed limits on arbitrary power, chief among them an independent criminal justice system and some kind of parliamentary accountability. The United States, on the other hand, has allowed the application of its laws to be bent to the will of an autocratic president, and the checks its legislature…
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Ian Hanna 