Living history and recycling matters today, more than ever before. Why? You look around the debris of our throw away society and all of the massive waste that features with mass production, planned obsolescence and relatively speaking: low production costs. …

When a language is lost, the feeling it shaped within all of its speakers, is lost too. This is not something we can quantify or qualify, but as languages are products of cultures developing, how we give articulation to our thoughts matters. Language matters. …

Medium’s writers need to stop promoting their own ‘tricks’ to earning big money on Medium. On Medium, there is a wide range of articles on many different topics. Some are deeply personal, fascinating, well researched, factual and others, from my experience, just seem to be focused on selling medium itself. …

The recent conclusion of Apple TV’s “For all Mankind” highlighted the potential for war in space. Yeah, you read that right. Space wars. So without giving spoilers of the excellent series, I’d like to take a moment to discuss space policy and what means for us going forward. I will…

The world's 10 richest people made $540bn in a year - we need a greed tax | Arwa Mahdawi 13,000,000,000. If all those 000s are making your eyes go funny, I'll spell it out: thirteen billion. That's how much…www.theguardian.com About now we are facing the idea of some entering a ‘four commas’ club, ie. Trillionaires. More wealth than we can imagine, more than Standard Oil of its day or Amazon today.

Economics is sometimes said to be a question of morality, not the mechanics of decision-making behaviour. The clash the titans of economics, Hayek and Keynes, has been central to defining economic policy as morally based. To spend more in a time of need to feed the poor or to let…

A couple of words on the status of overseas election monitoring from Ireland’s perspective. In 2020, I noticed that there were over fifty different parliamentary questions on many separate occasions about Ireland’s overseas election monitors. These volunteer roles were seen as non-essential and were stopped during the lockdown on public…

These are the factors that are influencing Ireland’s current policy towards the COVID pandemic, in my opinion. A lack of ‘cop on’. At present, a facts based public policy based needs to happen. “Reasonable risks” There are several vaccines, being used to combat the COVID 19 pandemic. Their names will be fixed…

Yesterday was St. Patrick’s day. The great and glorious international celebration of the grassroots, shamrocks, and greenery of Irish diplomacy. A privileged position. Around the world, despite an international pandemic, this day was marked. In green. When we consider the 193 countries around the world whose national days are…