Irish family values: Victim to the Troika
The Irish government is issuing swingeing property tax demands to millions of outraged home owners, with threats of deductions from wages for those who refuse to pay
- 11 April 2013
The Laffer Curve bites Ireland in the butt
All over the world, governments impose draconian taxes on tobacco, and then they wind up surprised that projected revenues don’t materialize. Ireland being the latest case in point
- 20 March 2013
The trappings of Irish freedom
For the last twenty-five years the Irish Republic, with one scandal after another, has had its dirty linen exposed to the world
- 12 February 2013
A redundant political class in Ireland
The more Ireland cedes to Brussels, the more people will argue there is little need for an independent Irish parliament
- 3 January 2013
Free Cornwall!
Is this what the European Free Alliance want Europe to look like?
- 24 October 2012
Crisis of statism not capitalism
If the extravagant spending promises of politicians outstrip the capabilities of even a well-functioning capitalism, that is not capitalism’s crisis, but a crisis of big government
- 9 October 2012
Free pass for PC humbug
Free pass for PC humbug
- 7 October 2012
The Brussels Diary: We're All Citizens of Europe Edition
Did you know that you can't be a British citizen without being a European, too? That and more...
- 30 June 2012
Where exactly is Europe?
"We have needs, and you must meet them" is the basic thought process of much of Europe today. Where does that leave it as a continent?
- 14 June 2012
Instant view: Eurozone on verge of renewed crisis as Spain debt yields soar towards unsustainable levels
Greece, Ireland and Portugal all needed bailouts after debt yields crossed the 7 percent barrier
- 14 June 2012
If Ireland votes Yes to the EU's Fiscal Union they'll surely be allowed to vote again, right?
If no doesn't mean no for the autocrats in Brussels, why should yes mean yes?
- 29 May 2012
Stop worrying about Greece leaving the euro. It won’t happen
What are we all worrying about? Greece won't leave the Euro - Jean-Claude Juncker says so.
- 22 May 2012
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
With the Irish going to vote on the fiscal treaty, could the eurozone face a backlash from a bitter nation that has been battered by German-imposed hardships?
- 29 February 2012
Is Ireland’s Michael Higgins an economic illiterate or a cynical hack?
Maybe Mr. Higgins should spend a year or two living at 1985 living standards before he makes another dim-witted speech.
- 9 November 2011
The European Union would have Pericles turning in his grave
An earlier generation of Athenians took pride in being a democratic “pattern to others”. Let them be so again.
- 7 November 2011
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