Bunker Roy explains his solar-engineering college and castigates the vested-interest aid industry to Samuel McManus (Simon Cumbers Award) It is is Diwali, the most important festival of the Hindu calendar,…

We need a ‘Social Europe’, not just Stability, Jobs and Growth   By Niall Crowley Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, did for it last year, in the…

Though famously dynamic, centralised and booming China is an environmental crisis   By Jennifer Duggan Heavy smog has shrouded a number of Chinese cities since the start of the new…

  JP O’Malley interviews Kofi Annan   I’m sitting in luxury on the ninth floor of the Dorchester Hotel, overlooking trees above the gates of Hyde Park. The autumnal sunshine…

Barack Hussein Obama II   Article by Michael Smith in the US Barack Hussein Obama is left-handed, like Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford. But his…

Willard Mitt Romney Article by Michael Smith in the US The Republican contender was born Willard (after family friend, hotel magnate J Willard Marriot) Mitt Romney in 1947, in Detroit,…

Paul Davis Ryan   Paul Davis Ryan was born in 1970 in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of Paul Senior and Betty Ryan’s four children. Sharing the same first name as…

Michael Smith interviews Chair of the Republican Leadership Council, and former US EPA head, Christine Todd Whitman   Christine Todd Whitman was Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001…

For most at the bottom, the American dream is a myth Article by Niall Crowley in New York   In February 2012 Mitt Romney told CNN “By the way, I’m…

Michael Smith interviews Trina Vargo, President of the US-Ireland Alliance   With no particular political connections, 25-year old Trina Vargo, from small-town Pennsylvania, and fresh from a politics degree in…

                      For our September-October edition Village has been in the United States, with several correspondents reporting on the upcoming Presidential…

Niall Crowley sought three alternative perspectives on the future for a better European Union.       It is not only an economic crisis that is being faced by Europe….

Ireland’s controlled and framed Constitutional Convention shows that democracy here is still a joke Article by Niall Crowley Three years ago a tiring joke was doing the rounds as to…

Francois Hollande will revisit the stability treaty in an effort to reorientate away from austerity   As Village went to press it appeared a bad-tempered and pugilistic marathon debate between…

Francois Hollande will revisit the stability treaty in an effort to reorientate away from austerity As Village went to press it appeared a bad-tempered and pugilistic marathon debate between the…

  With Germany reluctant to allow debt write-downs least of all by Ireland it’s interesting, as Patrick Guinness notes in a comment on Constantin Gurdgiev’s recent article, how little attention…

[October 2011] In the current economic climate, the Commission’s progress report needed to deliver good news to avoid ‘enlargement fatigue’, writes Garret Tankosić-Kelly On the 12th of October the European…

Democracy poses a threat to Israeli governments. By Kevin Barrington The theocratic nature of Israel has for too long been concealed behind the empty slogan ‘the Middle East’s only democracy’….