Why workplaces should replace gyms and free beer with creches and menopause policies

MIT coined the phrase Innovation-Driven Enterprises to differentiate them from traditional SMEs. And amid the threats of Covid-19, Brexit and global tax reform, we are going to need them more than ever. That will require a change of official thinking and the introduction of new policies.

Much delayed legislation introduced by the Government on Wednesday will apply to Ireland the carbon budgeting world standard developed by the UK since 2008. It may not ban petrol cars as promised, but its ambition is much bigger: regulate the collaboration between scientific experts and politicians in solving their greatest challenge for the next 30 years.

I think a focus on minimising the deficit is totally wrong-headed in the middle of a pandemic, but maximising the deficit makes no sense either. Planning for a large scale multi-annual stimulus seems to me to be a far better option.

Our housing crisis traces back to a dysfunctional market for land. The good news is that the problems are self-inflicted, and they can be fixed.

A decision of the Supreme Court in Bookfinders v. Revenue brought an end to a bitter VAT dispute rumbling on for the last 15 years and gave significant guidance on how tax law should be read.

My friend was raising money for a start-up. I was seeking funds for a house. Neither have been easy but along the two different journeys, there have been a lot of similarities worth noting.

The Central Bank of Ireland has started publishing new data on mortgage arrears – and the news is not good. An arrears crisis is brewing. The banks, and the state, are woefully unprepared for it.

As is clear in his interview today, the Tánaiste knows his job is about trade-offs. And Varadkar is correct, suppressing the virus is the best economic policy - we can’t close our economy, and we can’t let the virus run free. We have to dance around it and mitigate its effects.

Investors are waking up to the eye-popping size of the US sports betting market, and deals of all kinds are being done. One competitor of Flutter listed on the market this year and saw its share price triple. Private equity funds are sniffing around. And now, a Vegas casino group has acquired a UK bookie.

Fundamentally unable to adapt to the rise of China, the Anglosphere is fracturing from within. Whatever coming months may bring, the prospect of violent and chaotic rupture is now real and rising.