A look at Denmark, Netherlands and elswhere
In modern democracies, political offices are just one of a whole series of interlocking institutions that wield political power. Capturing one of them is not enough. There are no shortcuts.
We have a bizarre situation where the next Government will be bound – at least to some degree – by major spending decisions taken in the dying days of this one.
Not heaped on the taxpayer
Which came first? The Catholic Church? Or the people? The latter, surely: nowhere else in Europe was the Catholic Church given such power by democratically-elected governments.
Appalling abuses are happening right now.
Well, when you say it out loud…
Also: Fintan O’Toole’s extraordinary attack on cataract busses.
Politicians have both a political and economic incentive to tell you that everything is fine, until it isn’t. It’s not lying, necessarily – but it might just be unwarranted optimism.
Spend our taxes
Janice Boylan
War on parental rights?