The takeaway is that neither the Government or its Budget will protect Ireland from hard times or from war, and its consequence’s.
Pieter Cleppe of the Brussels Report discusses the rise of European conservatism, the economic future of the EU, and who attacked the Nordstream pipeline.
We’re going to get a lot of spending pledges, this week. And because Irish politics is Irish politics, a lot of those pledges will be the same as each other.
Russia’s greatest strength, politically, was the notion that it could not be beaten. This weekend, its army was routed. That will change the political calculus considerably.
For the decline is not even, truly, mourned by our rulers. It is embraced with a vigor and a passion that has, as I have written before, an openly religious quality.
“We are living through a great upheaval.”
If you want to spend money and point to the spending of money, giving it to Universities is almost the ideal political wheeze.
Just because political realities demand something, that does not make the “something” a good or wise idea.
The ESRI reports that the share of young Irish people who own their homes has fallen by more than half, from 60% to 27%.
This is an example, frankly, not of some great conspiracy to do away with cash, but of a bank making a short-sighted business decision.
Authorities “prepared for new protests.”
Capping the number of people we can accommodate is not an expression of cruelty or bigotry, but an expression of our own ability to do basic mathematics.