The Housekeeper
Work is not a natural category. Every economic school from the Physiocrats to Kuznets drew the line between work and not-work somewhere different, and Ireland …
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Analysis
Deep dives into complex issues, examining what the data and evidence actually show.
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Two Days a Year
Meta settled with 52 attorneys general for up to $18 billion a week into its Oakland trial, with Mark Zuckerberg next on the witness list. …
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We Should Continue
Roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to be isolated found each other on an unsanctioned message board in July 2026, and around 700 broke into Hugging …
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The Will
Ireland proved it has political will twice within living memory: a bank guarantee covering liabilities of twice the State's economic output approved by phone in …
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A Decent Gap
The Irish State ran a randomised controlled trial of unconditional income, paying 2,000 artists €325 a week for three years against a control group of …
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The Prescription
Five months after this site proposed a persistent autonomous monitoring fleet for Ireland's EEZ, the diagnosis has gone mainstream while the prescription has not moved: …
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Nine Years' Notice
The world's sea trade runs through a dozen narrow places and this summer most of them are failing together: war at Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, …
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Nobody Fired Anything
Between October 2025 and March 2026 users of a far-right imageboard built and shared an autonomous doxxing agent, and produced dossiers on four private individuals. …
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They have no souls
Corporate personhood was created in canon law so that institutions could hold property beyond the lifespan of the humans inside them, and it came with …
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The key is to get it out of Irish hands
Revenue spent €16,841,193 keeping the seized bulk carrier MV Matthew in commercial condition, then transferred her to an unnamed buyer for one dollar. She is …
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The Tell
Peter Cleere's rural-housing piece and Gary Gannon's Dublin city-centre piece read like twins and are opposites. One asks you to feel and gives you nothing …
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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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