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Declan Ganley, snakeoil salesman
The honeymoon is over for Declan Ganley and brand “Libertas”. But the brand‘s keeper, having being carried grinning over the publicity threshold by the sycophantic initial media coverage, is none too happy about it. In fact he seems to be verging on a paranoia which is shared, for example, by one of the latest “successful […]
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Brian Lenihan’s “Farmleigh Formula” of courting an eclectic group of venture capitalists, hedge funds and Irish oligarchs to re-capitalise the banks appears to be the Government’s only big idea for reforming and restructuring this crucial sector that affects all of our lives. Brian Lenihan should be wary of vulture financiers posing as good Samaritans. The […]
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John Rawls (1921-2002) is often said to be the greatest political philosopher of the twentieth century. He was a professor at Harvard University in the right-on seventies. His most famous work is A Theory of Justice (1971). He refined it endlessly which made an already over-elaborate theory even trickier. His theory is intricate, full of […]
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With the collapse of hands-off capitalism in the Western World, it’s nice to live in a country where the leader has his hands on everything. That, at least, seems to be the mood in Italy, where Berlusconi’s approval rating has soared to seventy per cent as the markets have plunged. The key to understanding the […]
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There are systemic risks of errors
You may not be sick of the election yet, but give it time. One of the more depressing aspects of elections is how little coverage is given to discussions of the merits of different policy options or the plausibility of the teams on offer, and how much is given to treating the election as a […]