Author: Frank Schnittger

Bailing out Anglo-Irish Bank is not only economically stupid and politically terminal; it is immoral. My title encapsulates two notions that are extremely unpopular in contemporary thought: The notion that a nation can be said...

The Times has published an article by my old friend Charles Bremner, James Harding, his Editor, and David Charter, Times Brussels correspondent including an interview the latter two conducted with with José Manuel Barroso,...

As some here may know, I started my brief career as a blogger on Timesonline a couple of years ago. I soon got fed up of the abusive comments and always having to respond to an agenda being set by someone else. So when I...

Bloody Sunday was for me one of those life defining events, to be remembered a bit like the day JFK was assassinated, Nelson Mandela was freed, and I first heard Neil Young’s “Harvest” and “After the Gold...

Having been the butt of Anglo humour for much of the last century, Ireland became the pin-up poster child of the great neo-liberal market revolution during the nineties and early naughties. Never mind that neither stereotype...