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  • 2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    The level of political outrage generated by the proposed changes to the rent control system is a welcome development. It shows that the Government has actually made some serious decisions about a thorny issue for which there are no obvious right or wrong answers. The most worrying feature of the Coalition’s first six months in office has been the impression of drift.

  • 4 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    Sinn Féin’s objections to Ireland’s participation in a year of commemorations for the Normans in 2027 shows up that party’s continuing inability to respect the complexity of our history. Such a narrow-minded approach to the past raises serious questions about how the party would operate in the present if it ever got its hands on the levers of power.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    As Tánaiste Simon Harris met his European Union trade counterparts in Brussels on Thursday to devise a response to Donald Trump‘s trade tariffs, the dilemma facing this country was brought into sharp relief. While a full-scale trade war will probably damage Ireland more than any other EU state, it is in our interests to give wholehearted support to the European response.

  • 1 month ago | philpostblog.wordpress.com | Stephen Collins

    By Stephen Collins/CNNAmericans are learning what it’s like to live with a president who sees no constraints on his actions and who apparently fears paying no price for them. In a blitz of recent policy moves, legal challenges, comments and interviews, Donald Trump is showing that he’s shedding the last limitations of custom and the public’s long understanding of how a president should behave.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    Mark Carney‘s stunning victory in the Canadian election shows that the political centre can hold when led by a strong, intelligent figure – in particular, when it is led by a figure who is both capable of standing up to right-wing bullies and avoiding being ensnared by the progressive pieties that have discredited liberal political elites in the eyes of so many voters.

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