Category: Politics

Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Complacency

Shana Cohen 18/03/2025

The 2025 Programme of Government embraces ‘stability’ in a time of geopolitical upheaval and democratic backsliding. The new government’s ‘stable majority’ is framed as Ireland’s anchor in a world of growing chaos. But let’s be honest about what this really means: political stability is being sold as an economic safeguard. What …

Reviewing Inequality: Understanding Piketty’s Latest Insights on Wealth, Power, and Justice

Paul Sweeney 30/01/2025

Thomas Piketty, was dubbed the "rock star economist" after his best-selling book "Capital in the 21st Century" was published in 2014. It was …

“The Most Important Election Since 1989”

Maria (Marysia) Pachowicz 06/11/2023

On the 15th of October 2023, a record-breaking number of Polish citizens both in Poland and abroad took to polling stations to cast their vote in …

Getting the Future Back

Gerry Mitchell 17/10/2023

Source: @Vuelio The narrow constraints that the Labour party has set itself were present at every fringe event at this year’s conference and …

What Is The Point? The Difference The Left Can Make

Stella Creasy 16/10/2023

In his essay Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages James Joyce quotes Oscar Wilde saying ‘We Irishmen have done nothing, but we are the greatest …

Major Issues where Mainstream Economists Failed - Part 1

Paul Sweeney 04/07/2023

In the last blog, I examined the President of Ireland's speech critical of the lack of heterodoxy (or differences) in Irish economics. I argued that …

Energy poverty, environmental degradation, lack of affordable housing and the rise of the far right

Shana Cohen 09/05/2023

This article was first published in The Irish Times on the 9th of May 2023. President Michael D Higgins’s

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