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The State’s commitment to fund Metrolink before its cost is known illustrates the abandonment of project selection on the basis of their business case.

Political parties’ accounts outline different spending priorities and sources of funding in 2024.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was proving that socialism could work in Spain, but then the lights went out. Now, for the first time since he became prime minister in June 2018, he’s looking vulnerable.

Eighty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel Animal Farm, the writer’s dissection of the drift towards authoritarianism remains as relevant as ever – despite deep personal contradictions.

As Trump’s second term barrels forward with spectacle, tariffs, and foreign posturing, the cracks at home are widening. From food stamps to fighter jets, Siobhan Brett asks: how long can the president sell strength abroad while Americans tighten their belts?

A renewed media committee quizzed the broadcaster’s equally refreshed leadership line-up one year on from the Ryan Tubridy-fronted payments controversy, but still ignored the crucial commercial aspect of its model.

Aubrey McCarthy has become the latest figure to be linked with a run for the presidency. He talks to Dion Fanning about why that is unlikely, his own exposure to addiction and how he made a difference in business and in the community.

Populist leaders claim to solve complex problems with simple solutions. In practice, they sow confidence-wracking uncertainty.

It feels like “more of the same” as opposed to progressive politics. Yet there are too many domestic issues that need to be addressed and too many international issues looming large.

When it comes to climate change and sustainability, the Programme for Government contains a lot of positive commitments – until you look at the direction set for individual sectors of the economy.