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Fascism and Free speech
Fascism is ineradicable. It lies like a virus in the body politic. All we can do is try to prevent the virus breaking out, and when it does, at the first stage, deal with it swiftly and ruthlessly. Fascism is back. I have written before on how Trump hits most of the markers for fascism. Here…
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What could Brexit look like? (Part 3 of 4) – Funds & Payments services/Fintech
A gloomy but logical view on the storm coming down the road
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What could Brexit look like? (part 2 of 4) – Regulated financial services
This is interesting. A technical post from a financial services legal perspective, on the real challenges facing UK financial services companies post Brexit.
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Fighting the Wrong Battle on Apple
Theres a lot of breathless posturing from the Government about the integrity of the tax system, post Apple. From the sound and fury one would imagine that the Commission (boo, hiss) had made a ruling that our 12.5% rate, blessed be its name, was in itself wrong. In fact all they have done is what…
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Your Tax euro at work….PQ version
“Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of the provision of third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more) [Dáil written answers, 19 July] via Third Level Costs — Ninth Level Ireland to which , were I minister,…
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What is the value of International Students to Ireland?
What is the benefit to the economy of international students? We can think of lots of soft power benefits from people having a good educational experience but there must be economic costs and benefits also? What are they?
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Trinity College Dublin: A Case of Rankings Abuse
Trinity College Dublin: A Case of Rankings AbuseTrinity College Dublin (TCD) is giving itself a public flogging over its fall in the rankings. This is rather odd since in fact it has been doing pretty well over the last few years with one exception. It seems that TCD is doing the academic equivalent of taking…
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Who needs billionaires?
The rich are and have always been different. I suppose that we should be grateful that they are now just stealing our money not actually eating us, evidence recently suggesting that the emergence of highly stratified societies and cannibalism were contemporaneous. Back in the day the chief used the threat of a dissident becoming supper (for…
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The Tatooine Cycle.
This folks, this is brilliant stuff. A New Hope (Star Wars) as an ancient Irish epic.
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Nurses and strikes
So, in protest at the overcrowding and calamitously badly organized nature of the health system, the nurses are to go on strike. Sorta.