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Good or bad not right or left
What does “left” mean today now that socialism is no longer on offer?
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Laws of unintended coherence
The case revolved around the circumstance of the unmarried father, with otherwise no rights to remain in Ireland, seeking to avail of his fatherhood of an Irish unborn child in order to remain here – and the extent of the child’s rights
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EDITORIAL Make Ireland ethical, equal and beautiful; and put economics in its proper place M argrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commis – sioner, serves as an inspiration for the main character in 'Borgen', a Danish prime minister who tries to juggle family life. She will know how economic concerns do not drive all agendas, […]
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Fixers and floaters
The colourful former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’s new book, ‘And the Weak Suffer What they Must?’, provides insightful reading for those who want to understand how the EU and the euro-currency have reached their present pass. Varoufakis shows in his book how the EU ‘project’ is now held together more by fear of the […]
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For nearly 20 years before his death in 1989, my father, who left school at 11 and drove a mailcar for a living, railed against the undemocratic evil of the European Thing. He brought me to understand that its operation depended on replacing intelligent politicians with stupid ones for the purpose of absolute control – the […]
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Last month, the UK referendum on membership of the European Union posited a seemingly simple question and delivered an obviously complex outcome. The vote on June 23 came in with a massive turnout of 71.8 percent, the highest for any UK-wide vote since the 1992 general election. In the end, England voted by a strong […]
