The massive eastward shift in manufacturing and production from Europe to China and India is in large part incentivised by EU carbon accounting policies.
If the Irish people are to have a Presidency whose role it is to speak up for them against their own Government, then where is that President when he is needed?
if deflating tires is a legitimate form of protest, as some appear to think, then it is a legitimate form of protest for everybody – not just environmental activists.
Nobody has captured the imagination – but, it seems, lots of voters are very clear who they are absolutely sick of.
A State Housing agency is a licence for suppliers to print money, and bureaucrats to waste it.
It is, in essence, an administrative usurpation of political power.
We didn’t just get a Chinese virus. We also got Chinese censorship
But the image of Fine Gael’s 35 TDs fighting a valiant rearguard action against the horde of 12 Green TDs doesn’t really make sense, unless you assume that each Green TD has the talent and capacity of three Fine Gaelers.
But it is fairly obvious that if the likes of Pence or DeSantis want to beat him for the nomination, they cannot continue to rush to his defence every time he gets into trouble.
“It is the kind of thing that only a fundamentally unserious party, or country, would do.”
The truth, I am fairly sure, is that he is no longer as certain as he once was that he is, in fact, in the majority.
The only question is how long, and how hard, it will have to be.