There is a spectre haunting Europe – the spectre of de-privatisation, re-municipalisation, and re-nationalisation.   Local, regional and national Governments throughout Europe and in other countries – fed up with high…

Andrew Phelan wrote of his experience on Facebook: ‘So government decide to throw €50 a month our way to help towards Crèche fees. Ok. It’s tiny but I guess every…

During the recession I was amused by the attacks on the Left:  ‘you’re fiscally irresponsible’, ‘if we followed your programme we’d go bankrupt’, etc.  In the ten years prior to…

Conventional commentary would have us believe that people don’t want to pay higher tax in order to receive more benefits.  But then there’s this interesting survey undertaken by the Department…

There are three golden rules of governance: You do not delegate the resolution of a problem to the party that caused the problem You do not delegate the resolution of…

Apologies for being absent from the debate for so long.  I got stuck in traffic.  Now, I am looking forward, again, to the analysis, the proposals and, most of all,…