You know, one of the most obvious facts about human nature which is often ignored is that people respond to incentives. If you reward certain behaviour, and punish the opposite, most people will simply take whatever course of action is easiest, and not think too deeply about it. With a few principled exceptions, when it […]
Irresponsible.
340 refugees next month
This is a political choice by the Irish Government to directly inflict economic hardship on a sector of its own economy, and all of the people who rely on that sector of the economy for their income.
The original test act, just like this modern one, had a simple animating origin: Fear.
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Though pragmatism might be what voters want, the opposition inside and outside of the Dáil is not incentivised to provide it.
There is no escaping sums. You can protest them, as the French are doing, and you can put them off for a while, maybe. But like Thanos, sums are inevitable.
Ethno-masochism.
Had Mr. Maxim been an Irish criminal, his crimes would have been recorded on the Garda pulse system, and detected in the vetting process.
We could debate this, in a civilised society: But debate it is not what Gary Lineker did.