I’ve seen critiques of Sinn Féin’s drift into nativitism that claim that these arise because the party is uniquely post-truth as a result of their decades of I think that’s an important misdiagnosis because I’m my experience of Irish politics most political parties don’t care about the truth, so Sinn...
When I went to the voting booth yesterday, I voted No. It was not a case of last minute gitters, nor was it a case of my being terrified by the austerity threats of the no-campaigners; I just didn’t have it in me to vote yes. This was the first...
When we try to understand the actions of Germany, with respect to the Eurozone, we have to look first at the Zollvererin league. The Zollvererin was a stepping stone to a united Germany, and it is supposed that the Euro will be the bridge that leads to a united Europe...
“Prediction is difficult, particularly about the future” :- Neils Bohr The markets are not predictable, they never have been, and they probably never will be. The most accurate predictor of today’s prices are yesterday’s prices, a concept know as “the random walk”. Prices today are approximately the same prices as...
Our problems are great; we have a banking crisis where a housing boom has blown a hole though our banking system, and the economy itself. There is a deficit crisis, which has arisen out of taxation system, which taxed, certain, narrow parts of the economy too heavily while expanding the...
We’re in the midst of three crises 1) a deficit crisis – caused by fifteen years of marketing oriented politics. 2) a banking crisis caused by us electing bullshit artists, and, 3) a Euro crisis, which has much more to do with Germany than it has to do with Ireland. We’re...