Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

As the country goes full throttle and rents hit all-time highs, it’s clear the economy is overheating. It may be time to ...

New research published by OECD shows poorer students in Ireland more likely than ever before to finish college and better ...

Cape Town is a cosmopolitan melting pot. A jumble of creeds, colours and languages, the city is a fusion where it’s impossible to define or establish what a true Capetonian “looks” like. A creation of ...

We all knew Donald Trump can win elections, we just didn’t know he’d be winning them outside the USA. Last Monday, Trump won the Canadian election for Mark Carney. There is no other way of ...

Once you start looking, the signs of an American recession are everywhere. The second-hand market is heating up, a classic pre-recession indicator. People are unloading luxury goods. Second-hand ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

When it came to the art of taxation, there were few more adept than the Roman emperor Vespasian, who understood that was better not to have all your eggs in one basket. So rather than taxing a few ...

What a week to be thinking about the world and geopolitics! I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s not clear whether you, me or anyone else can stomach 3½ more years of this carry on. Recently this ...

Have you ever spent time in any Church of Ireland chapels around the country? Among other things, these isolated and now largely empty rural buildings are the resting place of a military culture that ...

The Programme for Government accepts that rising house prices are a given. Nowhere is the new Government talking about falling house prices over the foreseeable future. It seems to accept this as a ...

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