Slavefare: government proposal is a sham This comment from an anonymous punter on progressive economy sums up many of my thoughts on the matter "The thing that annoys me most about this is that it's…
Monthly Archives For August 2010
An Artist’s Pledge to Boycott
I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against apartheid Israel. Compared to the imprisoned Palestinian…
Brand Ireland
Wall supports Brand Ireland Following on recent calls by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen and journalist Enda O’Doherty for Irish writers to ‘do the state some service’ (and leaving aside the fact that the first man…
Ratings Downgrade? Blame Raspberry Vinaigrette. The Recession Diaries – August 27th
One can only chuckle. Last year the pronouncements of rating agencies were treated as though they were written on Mount Sinai. Downgrades, or the threat of such, were interpreted by our high priests of deflation…
Both Night and Morning
“for Mr Ó Nualláin, ‘might have been’ has loomed largely in his college life – larger than his bantam strutting will admit” “When Mr Fitzpatrick grows up, he will find that ‘might-have-been’ figures too largely…
Social Europe Needs a New Economic Model | John Palmer at Social Europe Journal
Social Europe Needs a New Economic Model | John Palmer at Social Europe Journal There is however, a deep issue at stake if defence of decent European social standards is to be placed at the…
José Saramago – An Appreciation
José Saramago 1922 – 2010 One of the many startling things about José Saramago was that he was an overtly political writer in a literary world in which being political does not pay. Remarkably, at…
Fight Like a Man!
Meet the Spartniks! As regular readers of my blog are already know, my father was in the Spanish air force back in the time when it was the poor relation of the arm services. The…
The Suffering of the Rich – Can You Feel It? The Recession Diaries – August 25th
There have been some outrageous and hilarious things said in this economic debate. I don’t know how economic historians will come to rank them. But surely at the top must be the claim that the…
Ireland Trades in its Property Bubble for an Export Bubble
A small follow on from Michael Taft’s post, about the well-known exports tax scam known as the “Double-Irish”. The story of the tax scam has gone around the world and some at this stage, but…
The Rage and the Ridiculous. The Recession Diaries – August 23rd
The Central Bank Governor, Patrick Honohan, is outraged. In particular, he is outraged that Irish bond spreads are so high, ridiculously high. Don’t the ‘international markets‘ realise the dynamism of our export sectors, the budgetary…
Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists
Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists by Daniel Dorling, Policy Press (2010) Over the last two decades or so, scholars concerned with social justice have offered a number of different frameworks for helping us…
Michael Burke's common on Michael Taft's post on progressive-economy@tasc re Service exports
Michael Burke’s common on Michael Taft’s post on progressive-economy@tasc re Service exports In the late boom year of 2005 the Gross Value Added (GVA) of the building and construction sector was €12.9bn and industry ex…
New Left Project | NLP Blog
New Left Project | NLP Blog Good post on the BBC's official response to criticism of their Panorama documentary on the Gaza flotilla The BBC has, predictably, “dismiss[ed]” claims that a recent Panorama documentary on…
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