The conversation that we are not really permitted to have.
“Those lads don’t object to British Rule, so much as they object to Rule, full stop”.
One way of looking at that money is that it’s not savings at all: It’s a visual representation of the cost to the economy of covid.
I must confess, such conversations have always struck me as intellectually interesting, but ultimately very silly
During covid, people were not just banned for vaccine conspiracy theories. They were also banned for reasonable questions.
They had him red-handed. They had his phone. They had his laptop. They had the messages to the two girls, and the naked photo that he sent of himself.
That this is entirely cultural is obvious from the facts of it. Why is “monkey” considered offensive?
Expect this report to be “carefully considered” until, with any luck, you’ve forgotten all about it.
There’s an inherent conflict awaiting the country between the imperatives of the tourism season – tourists pay more, remember – and the country’s reliance on hotels for refugee accommodation.
It behooves me, as a writer about politics and society, to try to analyse and make sense of these numbers for you, the public. But I’ll be honest: Buggered if I know what’s going on.
In other words, if politicians really desired to alleviate the cost of commuting, they have a legion of possible avenues to do it.
The passage of time has made the intellectual contradictions in Irish Republicanism much harder to sustain.