Sitemap - 2025 - The Other Hand
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?
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?
"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
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?
China gets slammed. China retaliates. Rinse and repeat.
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
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
Is Trump Killing the US economy?
In conversation with Dan Davies, author of "The Unaccountability Machine"
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"
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?
NEW GOVERNMENT MUST GIVE GREATER FOCUS TO SME SECTOR
IRELAND PLEASANTLY BORING AND STAID IN 2024