The One Filter
A single structural claim, that the resemblance of an output is not the identity of the process that made it, and that self-referential evaluation is …
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Explainer
Background and context for stories that need it.
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Two ways to lose the upper regime
A new Frontiers in Human Neuroscience hypothesis paper proposes a biological mechanism for the switch between System 1 fast-parallel cognition and System 2 slow-sequential cognition. …
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Running Opposition on the Opposition's Platform
Plain-language explainer on the structural risk of running political-party internal organising on Meta-owned platforms. What WhatsApp actually knows (metadata: full social graph, group membership, cadence, …
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Both Halves of the Apparatus
The Irish political class and the Irish media class are two halves of the same apparatus. Both are trained: one not to say anything, the …
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Three years to house everyone: a working financing model
A working financial model for ending Irish modern homelessness in approximately three years: capital cost, financing terms, the transition profile, and the comparison with continuing …
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The shape of access: what 84,178 lobbying returns tell us about Irish public policy
84,178 returns across 11 years on the Irish lobbying register. The access patterns are visible in the data. Business lobbies dwarf labour and civil society. …
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Mapping the Irish right: what is forming, and what has been there all along
What 'the right' actually means in Irish life in 2026, mapped carefully: distinct strands, the recent drift, the electoral picture, structural drivers, and the empirical …
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The arithmetic of not building
Around €900 million flowed from the Irish State to private emergency-accommodation providers and HAP landlords in 2024, producing no permanent public asset. The same money …
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The landlords came back
Ireland is the country that won the Land War and removed landlordism across eighty years. In 2013 the State legislated a new landlord class into …
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What politics in Ireland actually is
A working definition of Irish politics in 2026: the party whip, the parish pump, the cross-party consensus, the lobbying architecture, and the gap between the …
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The forest the State decided to manage for someone else
How Ireland's public forestry agency, Coillte, came to operate a Gresham House private forestry fund. The 1988 Act gated both access and financial upside.
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Sold the view, extinguished the path
In April 2024 Fáilte Ireland announced that the Wild Atlantic Way generates €3 billion in annual tourism revenue. Six months later the State quietly removed …
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