Taxation to make life a little more difficult: it feels like the divine right of kings revisited.
Pourquoi?
Perhaps that is because Eamon Ryan is something that Irish people are not used to: A politician who keeps his promises.
On all three metrics on which you might judge energy policy, then – cost, supply, and emissions – Ireland went backwards.
Births are rising during the tormented country’s fragile peace
As the debate around transgender biological males in women’s sports comes to a head, you’d imagine that a group like Labour Women would be on the side of – well, biological women. But alas, that would make too much sense. Tweeting from their official account last night, the group reposted a Journal.ie article advocating for […]
There’s a bit of carts and horses about this one.
Scotland – with masks – has many more cases per head of population than Ireland – without masks.
“From our point of view this historic sponsorship agreement was just a natural fit”, a google spokesman was reported as saying.
Madness
When you make things more expensive and more rare and more exclusive, you begin to have an inherent political appeal to snobs.
These have been long, dark, miserable years. Covid 19 bears much of the blame for that. As a society though, our own share of the blame is much, much, greater than we will ever admit to ourselves.