Monday, Feb 6th 2012
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 what seemed inevitable. They are laying low alright, but will play a long game. Here in Ireland, a change of [...]
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 society - Making Good Society. One of the key aspects of that report was an enquiry into the relationship between [...]
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 Great Recession, or the Financial Meltdown of 2008, or whatever history will ultimately wind up calling the unfolding economic debacle we [...]
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 says the debate is over - ICTU should choose ‘patriotism and pragmatism’, sell ’spending cuts and tax increases’ to their members [...]
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 Dept. of Finance. I have also modified a section which may have implied that the other claims about Ireland’s generous [...]
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.
Like all Irish newspapers it is virulently pro-business, doggedly centre right and socially conservative. However, unlike the Irish Times with its ‘senior [...]
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 it: we are being prepared for the economic abattoir. And if you need any proof that the Left is rapidly [...]
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 Irish economy. While the media is awash with plenty of economic opinion at the moment, the majority of it seems [...]
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 be Done’ title. This should be fun. I intend to critique of each of these contributions. [...]
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 words in response, because it demonstrates that in fact her words shamed her.
