A number of European leaders have been going through a difficult patch: President Sarkozy, Taoiseach Bertie, Prime Minister Brown and caretaker Prime Minister Prodi. But spare a thought for His…

Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane – No, it’s public sector reform . . . Ah, public sector reform. What a great set of three…

Attention all progressives: tired of listening to neo-liberal commentators prattle on about high taxes, that whenever something worthwhile is proposed its met with ‘oh, my, taxes, taxes’, sick to the…

Lock up the children – its baby-eating time. The recent budgetary numbers were bad enough. But figures I have received from an informed source within a Government department suggests that…

How can the Left argue the case for taxation to fund social and economic development and not get annihilated at the polls? That is the challenge posed by a recent…

Fianna Fail certainly read their Sun Tzu. The legendary author of the ancient classic, ‘The Art of War’, stated that To defeat your enemy without fighting is best. Yes, indeed.…

We can all have fun in Household Budget Survey land. Conor over at Dublin Opinion has expressed his excitement at delving into 85 pages of dense rows of numbers and…