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Everyone is left behind in the UK. Vance tries to put lipstick on a pig

At last! the solution to the housing crisis: build match boxes!

TRUMP GETS EVERYTHING HE DESIRES

Should Ireland care about the UK's slide into despair?

10% tariffs + 15% exchange rate hit = economic carnage?

Irish politics today: paralysed by indecision. But is that what we want?

Irish politics today: paralysed by indecision. But is that what we want?

War: A podcast special

Trump bombs Iran

Are house prices really that high? Stagflation, interest rates and Switzerland

Is there a good rationale for bombing Iran? All the latest data. More totalitarian steps in the US

So where do you get your opinions from?

IRISH HOUSING POLICY - THE LATEST

War and the world economy. The UK's sordid service sector. Is 'progressive' pejorative?

America's big birthday approaches. But is that Republic going the way of the Romans?

The economy is going gangbusters. Or not. Dublin & London subsidy everybody else. Why?

Ireland & the UK: 2 countries, 1 rich, 1 not so much. 3 crises & neither doing anything about them

HOPEFULLY THE THEORY OF MEXICAN CHIPS WILL PREVAIL

The Trump family enriches itself. In plain sight

Trump creates a new unregulated banking system. What could possibly go wrong?

No big tariff consequences in the data - yet. Ireland still going gangbusters?

MAGA split. Fiscal crisis brewing in the US? Brexit boredom in the UK

Money for nothing. 'More': is that really what gives us meaning?

IS TRUMP ALL BAD?

It's all immigration's fault

"Ireland is no longer Irish". Discuss

Trump chickens out. Starmer veers right and loses middle England.

Performative trade deals. The UK pays protection money to the Mob.

Meme coins and property deals provide no clues about Trump's values

Financial markets think it's (nearly) all over. Are they right?

The US is the richest and most succesful country ever. Why do so many think it is so awful?

How to forecast the stock market?

House building fails to take off. China has the upper hand over Trump. Tesla sales disappoint.

Trump starts to show up in the global economic data. The IMF adds to the gloom

ECB DELIVERS, & MORE TO COME

From fear to terror?

Will house prices be crushed by the Trump recession? Who wants to go back down the mines?

The business of sport - in conversation with rising motor racing star Alex Denning

The United States unites the world

Has the next financial crisis started?

What a week

China gets slammed. China retaliates. Rinse and repeat.

Don't get fooled again

Is this a Liz Truss moment for the world? Is smuggling into the US the next big thing?

Is a global recession imminent?

Is it time to call the US a Dictatorship? If it walks like a duck....

Only Russia and N. Korea were exempted from the tariffs

Keir Starmer falls into Donald Trump's trap. Liberation day looms.

The new cold war: The US v. everyone else

Mob rule

The rapidly changing Irish personal finance landscape. Can you manage your own bin charges?

SLOWER GROWTH & HIGHER INFLATION

Transitory inflation is back. Is the era of full employment drawing to a close?

The coming constitutional crises - in more than one country

Happy St Patrick's Day! Ireland's place in the world - the threats and opportunities

Trump is unbound and unhinged. At least the stock market has worked it out.

MAGA is all in. Even a stock market crash is not going to change hearts or minds

It's worse than you think

Is Trump Killing the US economy?

In conversation with Dan Davies, author of "The Unaccountability Machine"

The West is Over

The West is over. Get over it.

All gas and rare earths: where are the proper journalists?

Can the EU survive the collapse of the post-WW2 world order?

The financial crisis was just a rehearsal

2 podcasts and 3 blogs on the collapse of the international order

How to cope with a pro-Russian cult that is trying to destroy any idea of "The West"

TRUMP AND IRELAND

Another Munich? Or a deal to remind us of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact?

The US gives Europe the finger

Selling out Ukraine is a new low

Will the West unite against its new common enemy? (That's America, in case you hadn't guessed)

Finding nobility in the health service. Something notably absent in the White House

Should the first act of Ireland's new government be an emergency budget?

Wanted: politicians who fill in potholes. Delivery, delivery, delivery

Are you warming to Donald Trump?

Monty Python sketch or simulation?

How to stop Farage from being the next UK Prime Minister

The dark side of technology - from tech evangelist Joan Mulvihill

Why has Ireland escaped the right-wing wave crashing over Europe and North America?

4 posts and 3 podcasts to begin 2025

The age of stupid? Or will financial markets impose sanity?

Is the Musk-Trump administration trying to kill the idea of the West? Bond markets crash and German mysteries

NEW GOVERNMENT MUST GIVE GREATER FOCUS TO SME SECTOR

IRELAND PLEASANTLY BORING AND STAID IN 2024

Can the EU survive the Trumpification of Europe?

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