I can still remember the sense of change and confidence, a sense I was growing up in a place worth being proud of

Tánaiste brands a reasonable Sinn Féin proposal as populist — while he and his political partners unveil a bonkers policy that could upend progress on Ireland's problem drinking

It’s not too late for social democracy — but it needs to wake up

You can only grow an economy by investing — in infrastructure, in education, and in decent and sustainable social services

Almost everyone believed that Boris Johnson was as low as trust in politics could fall. Truss, it transpires, can go lower

I don’t know what you make of the new TV series about Boris Johnson. It’s called This England, and apparently, there’s a sequel already in the works about Liz Truss. It’s going to be called This England, torn to shreds.

 I once worked with a very wise man. I’d better not tell you his name because you’ll all be after him. He was one of those men who was generous with his time and had buckets of insight from years of challenging experience.

Call it what you like, privatisation is wrong  — morally and economically — and we should always have resisted it

The fact is that social media — and especially Twitter — can’t deal with big stuff

I admit to being slow. I have a degree in economics. It’s pretty old, and it sure wasn’t a highly distinguished degree in the first place. And it has slowly dawned on me that I haven’t a clue what economics is really about.