There was a ‘technical fault’ during a BBC interview with Yanis Varoufakis on election day in Greece. It occured at the point when Yanis reiterated his point made here that the BBC and the world’s…
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Don’t (Just) Shoot the Messager
Remember the banking crisis? You would have thought that was the end of the good times for those financial institutions. Er, not really. Its not that the banks themselves had to try hard to change…
Media and Civil Society in Crisis Conference – DIT Aungier Street May 12th
In March 2010 the independent Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, working in conjunction with the Carnegie (UK) Trust, published a report into the future of civil…
Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report Glen Ford’s latest contribution to Black Agenda Report points to a study which finds that: “The very rich, through their media, have been holding a conversation among themselves.” The…
Progressive Economy | Challenging the Dublin Consensus
The Dublin Consensus Sli Eile of Progressive Economy responds to Sarah Carey’s article today in the Irish Times and talks about the dominance of the Dublin Consensus (following the notion of the Washington Consensus). Carey…
Sarah Carey’s Not Very Generous Response
Updated on 5th of May 2009 to take account of the fact that I have since verified that the explanation about OECD tables being ‘problematic’ was provided to Sarah by a press officer in the…
Irish Left Review Is One Year Old
As Garibaldi on Cedar Lounge Revolution has already mentioned, the Sunday Independent contains a unique: … mixture of arrogance, snobbery, hysteria, ineptitude, and desperation to appear oh so metropolitan and sophisticated while remaining unremittingly provincial….
February 27 Lunchtime: The Recession Diaries
The RTE Prime Time programme last night contained some of the most misleading (to put it mildly) presentation of facts and subsequent analysis to have been aired in a long time. Make no mistake about…
New TASC Progressive Economy Blog Launched
The Irish think tank for action on social change TASC, has just launched Progressive Economy, a new blog for progressive economists, many of whom are part of the TASC Economists’ Network to comment on the…
January 25th Evening: The Recession Diaries
So, the Irish Times is going to treat us to a series of articles from our leading economists over the next few days. They must be serious as they are using Lenin’s ‘What is to…
Brenda Power writes about the funeral of Tony Gregory in the Sunday Times. She shouldn’t have.
Last weekend, the Sunday Times published an article by Brenda Power entitled: TD’s funeral shamed him about the recent funeral of Independent TD, Tony Gregory. The article has forced me to put together a few…
Will Palestine Always Be The Issue?
Last week, in interview with a More 4 journalist, Mark Regev, one of Ehud Olmert’s spokespeople, admitted that Israel knew and had officially recorded the fact that Hamas had not broken the ceasefire between the…
As the Story was Told: How Irish Media Reports on Climate Change
It is a common enough for blogs, independent magazines, message boards and independent news sources to take issue with how the mainstream media reports on climate change. The argument is that mainstream media is still…
The Climate Change ‘Debate’
“This debate will go on and on. It’s been an interesting discussion and hopefully we’ll come back to it again.” [Miriam O'Callaghan, RTE's Prime Time, 25th November 2008] Miriam O’Callaghan concluding a recent Prime Time…
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