A Wealth Tax, Once Every Thirty Years
The Economist opposes a wealth tax while backing a broader inheritance tax. For the very rich those are the same tax on a different clock, …
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Analysis
Deep dives into complex issues, examining what the data and evidence actually show.
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Famine Is a Decision
In March 2026 a closed shipping lane in the Gulf shut down five of Bangladesh's six fertiliser plants. No harvest failed. This is how modern …
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The Eleven Cookies
The grievance behind the fuel protests and the riots is real. The research says it is not personal poverty but a collective sense of lost …
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Ireland Has No Buffer
Ireland's exposure to the 2026 oil shock is not that the tankers stop. The crude never stopped. It is that a country importing four-fifths of …
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The decision Ireland keeps not making
England's universities are closing departments and shedding thousands of staff, and the regulator's own figures say more than a third ran a deficit last year. …
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The Regreening
The founding president of Facebook said on the record that the platform was built to consume as much of your time and conscious attention as …
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You Are the Transmission Mechanism
On 11 June 2026 the ECB raised rates for the first time since 2023, choosing the one anti-inflation instrument that works by squeezing mortgaged households, …
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The Future Ireland Already Spent
Two articles this week frame AI as a story you can choose to believe: the Guardian names the absolutism, The Journal performs the official Irish …
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The Plan That Never Says Ireland
The World Inequality Lab's Global Justice Report is the first fully quantified plan to treat inequality compression as a precondition for keeping the planet habitable: …
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A Matter of Time
For the first time in history there is medicine that corrects the genetic fault behind epidermolysis bullosa, the disease that makes a child's skin as …
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Corruption in Miniature
A small branch of an anti-corruption party fast-tracked an insider's motion to national conference, then quietly screened out two members' motions on a pretext it …
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Neutrality below the trigger
The Defence (Amendment) Bill 2026 removes the UN-mandate leg of the triple lock and raises the Dail-vote threshold from twelve troops to fifty. The official …
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