Ireland

€11.26, some lint and an expired voucher for Burger King. These are Steve and Richies combined total assets. Surely, with such meagre wealth, the politics of capital is nothing of their concern? Aidan Reagan joins the lads to discuss why we…

How is the US political system like a broken laptop from the last century? What if Trump or Biden get Covid-19? And what if Trump won't leave the White House? This is Washington Windows '95. Steve Byrne | co-host of What Am Politics?…

Trans rights are human rights. For many of us, this is an obvious fact, but like all civil rights movements it has its detractors. In recent weeks the world has seen an uptick in TERF and “gender critical” voices in the media.…

I miss Dublin. I miss Howth and the Wicklow Mountains. I was born in Brooklyn, but have spent most of my life on Staten Island. This past month, as the virus has displaced ordinary life, I’ve stopped watching news. Recently a friend from…

With COVID-19 wreaking havoc on the world's economy governments are scrambling to find a way to support their citizens. Many experts, including our guest Steve Thomas of UBI Labs, are advocating for Universal Basic Income as a solution.…

It is difficult to overstate how dramatic and transformative the results of GE2020 have turned out to be. Ireland's version of the two-party system has been broken. We likely will have a Taoiseach who doesn't come from the two parties that…

You guys, snap elections are soooooo hot right now. And Ireland, being the trendy little diva that she is, has announced her very own general election a full year early! Have a listen to What Am Politics take on who's up and who's down in…

I have been faithless for the entirety of my adulthood. As a teenager growing up in the Parkhead tradition, I carried Catholicism like a banner, believing in God because he was our god, the Irish god, something that our postcolonial…

In 1918 a campaign song was written by an anonymous author for the General Election of that year. 'The Sinn Feiners Election Song' appeared on a ballad sheet which sold for a penny on the streets of Dublin. With the same air as 'The Boys of…

Few arthouse films this year are as likely to appeal to an Irish audience than The Nightingale, writer-director Jennifer Kent's follow up to her breakout debut The Babadook from 2014. After all the Aussie filmmaker's latest is essentially…