Thursday, Mar 18th 2010
Thinking Allowed | White Collar Crime 2 - The Regulators
Laurie Taylor continues his excellent Thinking Allowed series on white collar crime. As a former professor of criminology Taylor brings a professional interest to a fascinating topic and in this edition looks at corporate crime and the regulators who are supposed to police it. In the [...]
An Esample to Us All
Here is a picture of a happy-go-lucky homeless urchin on a Madrid street corner. See how sophisticated and cool he looks.
Now look again.
Yes. He is cool and sophisticated because he is smoking a cigarette.
Sadly, this sight is being becoming increasingly rare in Spain. Gone are the day when a young boy [...]
C&AG: hospitals owed €167m by private insurers
It says the low rate of income recovery from patients who were treated privately in the 24 hospitals reviewed “would suggest that the State is facilitating private medicine without getting the related income for the service it provides”.
Some 50 per cent of private in-patients are not charged for their [...]
Look Out! There are Thieving Foreingers Everywhere!
There was a terrible loud huge banging on my front door that wake me up last Thursday afternoon which make me think for certain that the anarchist police had come for me and which therefore make me rush naked from my daybed and flush down the toilet [...]
So the government has dumped Bernard McNamara and the Leargas consortium because they were no longer affordable just as Bernard McNamara dumped the government when it appeared that the Regeneration Projects wouldn’t be the cash cow that McNamara had planned. In both cases the recent increase in the cost of financing the projects were cited. [...]
SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains spoilers galore, so it’s best not to read it unless you’ve followed The Wire to the very end.
There have been few television shows that have enjoyed a posthumous fame as great as The Wire. Generally ignored by the public and the Emmys ever since its debut in early 2002, [...]
The public reaction of profound sympathy and outrage at the killing of Shane Geoghegan, by a killer or killers involved in a bloody feud between drug-dealing gangs in Limerick, is totally justified. Shane Geoghegan was an innocent bystander mistaken for the true target - a member of one of the rival Limerick drug gangs. Shane [...]