Last week’s survey showing that almost two thirds of public service workers might vote for parties they had not supported before if they were promised pay increases above inflation was as revealing as it was depressing.

Climate change is the world’s most urgent problem. The key centrist proposal for tackling it — in keeping with the prevailing neoliberal dispensation — is a carbon tax.

In American politics, the Republican Party's commitment to the fossil-fuel industry means that it will continue to deny climate science and favour policies that exacerbate global warming.

Uneven economic recovery is combining with deteriorating environmental conditions to threaten humanity itself, write Richard Kozul-Wright and Kevin P Gallagher

Pre-tax profits at the Teeling Whiskey Company soared by 73%, last year, to €2.95m, as the popularity of Irish whiskey continued to grow.