Ugly Carnival for the Beautiful Game
The World Cup has arrived. The colour, the pride, the expectation of great things from 22 men on a pitch: it is why we call it the beautiful game! Yet this World Cup, the most expensive in history, has been marred by controversy. Brazil 2014 is not an isolated case. Sport events are no longer merely...
PR-STV and electoral reform in the Republic of Ireland
The character of high politics in the Republic of Ireland has, as a consequence of the cluster of crises and controversies around the first decade of this century, come under a degree of impeachment. Central to the claims of its accusers is the notion that Irish legislators are not sufficiently national in their outlook, preferring...
