Politics
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These are challenging times for social democracy. Last year, my party took a beating in the general election. We lost many good TDs, and saw our share of the vote fall to 6.6%. Unfortunately, this result was in some ways a foretelling of what was to follow elsewhere. Over the last six weeks, we have […]
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Theory of water services
Even with the likelihood of charges for wasteful use of water, as recommended by the Report on the Funding of Domestic Public, the State will remain much more central to water provision than under erring market environmentalist models.
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Trump is a conduit for two distinct projects: Steve Bannon’s meta-historical ‘Fourth Turning’ and the tech-revivalism of PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Both intend to “drain the swamp” and build condos on top of it for themselves.
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The Furthest Exit:Bannon’s Long-Game
Trump is a conduit for two projects: Steve Bannon’s meta-historical ‘Fourth Turning’ and the tech-revivalism of PayPal founder Peter Thiel
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Garda too strong, yet too weak
Most of the gardaí I have spoken to have been shocked and appalled by the revelations into the whistleblower affair
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Market environmentalism assumes that the price signal is a key policy instrument for regulating demand and supply, as well as central to changing behaviour, ‘valuing’ the environment and conserving scarce natural resources. This is underpinned by a discourse of ‘state failure and a pro-PPP agenda’
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