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Inflation, cost disease and lessons from the National Children’s Hospital debacle

October 19, 2021 3:51 am Published by Ed Brophy

The epitaph for the seven years of prudence in public budgets that was the raison d’etre of the governments that... View Article

October 18, 2021 5:57 am Published by Peter Kinsella

The UK’s infamous winter of discontent in 1978/9 was characterised by labour strikes in both the public and private sector,... View Article

October 16, 2021 5:50 am Published by Sean Potts

The Death of a Chieftain, John Montague, 1964. When the poet John Montague suggested a name for Paddy Moloney’s newly... View Article

October 16, 2021 5:45 am Published by Rebecca Moynihan

Suddenly people are waking up to what has been happening in the student accommodation sector. There’s a perfect storm of... View Article

October 16, 2021 5:10 am Published by Dion Fanning

On a Saturday evening in December, 2009, the recently enriched Manchester City announced they had sacked their manager Mark Hughes.... View Article

October 15, 2021 5:10 am Published by Constantin Gurdgiev

For decades, US multinationals in the tech sector paved the way to the monopolisation of data and consumer-focused services. The... View Article

October 13, 2021 5:50 am Published by John Looby

Clearly enjoying his interview at the recent FT Weekend Festival, the former UK Prime Minister, John Major, started by comfortably... View Article

October 12, 2021 9:01 pm Published by Sean Keyes

On budget day, the standard remedy to any problem is to throw money at it. So it was good to... View Article

October 12, 2021 5:38 pm Published by Sean Keyes

On budget day 1958, Finance Minister James Ryan (great-grandfather of the rugby player) was grappling with the big problems of... View Article

October 12, 2021 4:18 pm Published by Ian Kehoe

In the middle of July, the Department of Finance published its Summer Economic Statement, a document designed to set the... View Article