I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, particularly since I got an email from William Wall about his Citizen’s Manifesto , and shortly afterwards spotted Damien Mulley’s Questions for the Politicians that stop at your door. Suzy Byrne made a similiar point to my number 1 on Damien’s blog, but I can’t [...]

An excellent piece on food, subsidies, and why so many of the poor in the US and elsewhere are obese, by the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It is, in fact, a fine espousal of holistic economics. You Are What you Grow :: The New York Times [may require registration]

Here we go again, Ireland at the bottom of a league, this time along with France when it comes to the amount of packaging waste per person in Europe. This is all despite the demise of the plastic bag, for which the government deserves credit – and gets it world-wide. Yet this is the government [...]

I received a flyer through my letterbox from an independent candidate for Dublin Central, Cieran Perry. His main plank is government waste, and how the wasted money could have been spent. I don’t have the time to check his figures at the moment, but it’s an interesting general point. He gives two examples. Example 1 [...]