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David McWilliams: Political centre must offer something to those who cherish liberal values, openness, tolerance and decency
Anyone with a sense of financial history knows how the fever for the cryptocurrency will end. And it’s not pretty
Spend some time with younger people and the evidence of dopamine culture is everywhere
David McWilliams: Ireland’s hyper-local political system will always impede rather than advance national development
David McWilliams: Irish people in some sectors are playing at the top of their game. In other areas, we can’t even get the basics right
David McWilliams: for years, economic historians looked at the wars of the 17th century through the lens of statehood, conquest and religious fervour. But there is a different story told by climatologists
My Northern Irish family, some of whom work in the NHS, say things have never been so bad
If we are paying the public sector more without increases in the quality or provision of services, what is happening?
The south county Dublin town was built to be lived in, not to be used as a rat run into Dublin by motorists
Accommodating a rapidly-rising population requires emergency or crisis thinking. It is easy if you have a home to be inured to the severity of this national challenge
David McWilliams: The Los Angeles streets paved with gold are also the famous boulevards of broken dreams. This economic battle for survival gives LA both its harshness and its excitement
Gutenberg’s printing press transformed the world and those who were better educated to begin with enjoyed the greatest benefits; AI’s transformative power is far greater
Spend now and worry about overheating later. The stakes are too high for the economics of the 1980s to imperil our 21st century society
Let’s talk about a new Republic, the Second Republic
David McWilliams: The right has become left, and the left has become the right. Such blurring will continue