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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Weaponise the Welcome
A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …
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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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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 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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Months and years
The June 2025 war on Iran depleted roughly half of US Patriot, half of US THAAD and half of US SM-3 inventories, plus more than …
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The Buyers Show Up Before the Policy Lands
Five separate Chinese-European factory moves landed in April-May 2026: VW cutting 3M units of capacity, Geely talks for Ford Almussafes, Stellantis-Dongfeng $1.2bn Wuhan JV, SAIC/MG …
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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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Have You Looked Out Your Window Lately?
On 28 May 2026 two pieces of news arrived in parallel. The UK's Alan Milburn warned of a 'lost generation' of more than a million …
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