What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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The Blockade That Blinked
On Sunday, a Russian oil tanker called the Anatoly Kolodkin was sailing at 12 knots off the eastern tip of Cuba, carrying 730,000 barrels of …
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The Blue Line in the Sand
On Sunday morning, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed by a projectile that struck a United Nations position near the village of Adchit Al Qusayr, in …
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The Ladder They Pulled Up
Ireland's government wants more professional landlords. Ireland's young people can't find jobs. These are not two stories. They are one policy, viewed from opposite ends …
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The Machine That Cannot Say No
The dominant AI safety conversation, the one consuming billions in research funding and generating thousands of column inches, is about containment. How do we keep …
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The Filter Before the Thought: On Allistic Pre-Cognitive Filtering
There's a question autistic people ask a lot, in various forms, about the allistics in their lives: why do they miss the obvious? Not occasionally. …
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