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Just a point of clarification, failure to collect taxes was not a problem in ireland, failure to control reckless lending was the problem. The Irish Revenue then and now is very efficient. The rate of growth was such that the amounts collected in revenue exceeded predictions for a number of...

Hate is an emotion..a human emition. they don't hate . Of course they seek out weakness and attempt to manipulate situations.. just like sharks will circle smaller fry punching them together and then taking turns to feed the concentrated fish...

There is another reason... The UK speaks English... Or at least something approximating to English. If there is a common second language on a world wide basis and certainly on a European basis it is English..

.. currency exchange dealers don't hate, no more than a shark hates smaller fish. They just attack and attack if there is potential for profit.

Perhaps I am out of my depth here, but could the reason be that in the UK, and to a lesser extent here in Ireland ,is that cycling is seen As a leisure activity. The ratio of mountain bikes to urban bikes sold would support that... Look at the types of bike used for commuting and on city...

.. you have made many references to this Mr Hargreaves over an extended period of postings. Could we compare him with a Mr Michael O Leary?. A farmer from co Westmeath, who has also built up what was a bankrupt airline, employing many thousands, providing millions of trips per year into the...

Our newbie prime minister . Leo , him with the L plates and stabiliser wheels , made a very interesting comment today, which I had not previously considered... All 1.5 million of the residents in northern Ireland are entitled to full Irish citizenship and EU citizenship, and yes that includes...

I agree it will be a big surprise, not not alright on the night or the days or weeks or months following

Size matters, Switzerland at 8 million is 1% of the the EU, UK at 60 million is closer to 10%. Switzerland is fully surrounded by the EU, and sell into a few specialised areas precision goods , pharma... They need to buy their general purpose goods from the EU. The UK would be the reverse...

... And it may well be seen by even more as defending a consitution, by consitutional and legal means. The parallels with northern Ireland and it's regional parliament currently under suspension, for some 9 months now, cannot have escaped your attention. The irony is delicious, although all...

Why would you assume that 1. The Chinese will poor money into an economy of just 60 million people, when there is a market of 10 times that 15 miles away.? 2. That the Chinese are friends of the UK?.. they have historians also, and long memories.

As Oscar Wilde might have put it... to lose one prejudice might be viewed as a misfortune to lose two is careless

On an allied , but different topic, the current edition of Nature magazine.. probably the most prestigious of all the peer reviewed science magazines, has a major editorial emphasis on women's health . What country in the developed world has the worst outcomes, on average for peri natal deaths...

Steb, What planet have you been living on? As One of the golden circle .. I think in new york put it as.. Taxes, Taxes? Darling only the little people pay taxes . Ms . Naomi Klein wrote a book some years ago about the new rights of a corporation and the fact that it was now a "person" in law...

... Well maybe she's not rich enough?. If you have a corporation it can buy in services for anything it likes catering, security and pays corporation tax on its profits not its inputs so if it is not very profitable... If on the other hand it is profitable it then creates another company in...

Absolutely nothing... Except for the exceptions. Rich people can arrange that more of their wealth is spent on purchases by corporation or trusts , who don't pay these taxes. These items e.g houses, cars, aircraft, boats, grouse shooting lands, are nominally owned by the corporations, but are...

Every society and state has laws , it didn't matter whether they are democratic, autocratic, dictatorships , left, rightist, fascist or whatever . I doubt whether these two persons were imprisoned for wanting their choice of independence, or for their beliefs. What they have been imprisoned for...

The winner of the Ophelia prize was the Fastnet lighthouse off the Cork coast which got wind speeds of 191 km./hr. Those of you who are sailors may remember it in another context.

.. our perhaps consumers being able to pay the price increases particularly when asked to the new exchange rates!

Alls right with the world, storm passing, power restored .. except for the three confirmed storm related deaths, one who worked with the daughter in law, all deaths related to tree incidents ..