The fate of Jamal Khasshogi may begin the unravelling of Trump’s amoral, dangerous and Darwinian policies
Jamal Khasshogi was until this month a Saudi citizen resident in the US and a regular contributor to the Washington Post – a paper quite critical of Donald Trump. He was living in self-imposed exile because he wanted to be able to write about Saudi and Middle Eastern affairs entirely free from the control of […]
Culture of learned helplessness has failed us in the housing and homelessness crisis
We have just been told that the requirement for departmental approval for social housing projects with a value of more than 2 million euro is to be eased to 7 million euro to encourage local authorities to start building them. If the cap fixed by the Department of Housing Planning and Local Government for local […]
Unjudicial Kavanaugh is “damaged goods”; his ratification will weaken the Supreme Court
When I first heard the allegation that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually molested a fellow mid-teenager at an up-market, under-age, booze fest house-party the best part of forty years ago, I asked myself how such an allegation, if true, could constitute good grounds for rejecting his nomination to the US Supreme Court given that he had […]
The loss of the Luas Green Line for two days was a sobering event
The stormy weather of last few days has had truly tragic consequences for some and provided a greater number of near misses for others. Power outages and event cancellations have quite serious human and economic consequences. The loss of the Luas Green Line service for two days and the ensuing traffic chaos along its catchment […]
Junker’s swansong contained a few bombshells on tax and sovereignty that should make us sit up
True to form, Jean Claude Juncker combined theatricality and vacuous rhetoric as he addressed the European Parliament for his last “State of the Union” speech, entitled “The Hour of European Sovereignty”, on Wednesday. And true to form, the parliamentarians for the most part gave his rather elephantine swansong a standing ovation. Some of them, however, […]
Might Leo be tempted to go to the country on the 26th October?
With an impending presidential election on Friday 26th October, a very real question arises as to whether Leo Varadkar might be tempted to seek an early dissolution of the 32nd Dáil. There are many reasons why some think he might be tempted to do so. Firstly, the economy is doing well. Unemployment is low; employment […]