by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | International
In its 2017 budget, Italy’s centre-left government enacted a new flat tax for Italian first-time residents. The flat tax amounts to euro 100,000 regardless of the amount of taxable income. If elected into power at next year’s general election, the centre-right...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Featured, Politics
What’s with all this talk of friendship between Britain and Ireland? No such friendship exists and nor has it ever existed. This is nothing but cold toleration and even that is getting close to ending. Late last month Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s foremost...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Featured, International
It is not as though the British government haven’t known of the potential problems for Ireland that Brexit causes, in the almost 18 months since the UK voted to leave the European Union (EU). This issue has been the subject of the same magical thinking though that has...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Featured, Health & Education
I suffer from depression. I have on and off for many years. That’s not to say I live in a perpetual state of doom and gloom, because I have had many years where I feel fine, great even. But now isn’t one of them. This blog isn’t about why the black dog or ugly beast...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Politics
When Angus Robertson stood at the podium at the SNP Conference in October and announced that the second Scottish Referendum would take place before 2021, his statement was met with a cheer and an applause. Optimism filled the room and excitement ensued us all. There...
