Ireland
The Gist: Who makes money from inflation?
Inflation squeezes the living, but delivers windfall benefits to certain companies. This is the Gist.
Simon McGarr
A lawyer with McGarr Solicitors and director of Data Compliance Europe. Senior Policy Advisor for M3AAWG, guest lecturer with ERA in Trier & External Examiner for Irish Law Society on Data Protection.
Climate
The Gist: Lords of Misrule
The Government refuses to take a decision the science says it must make to hit Ireland's emissions targets. This is the Gist.
Climate
The Gist: A long, hot Summer
The political climate and the actual climate aligned this week, leaving everyone hot and the farm lobby bothered. This is the Gist.
UK
The Gist: A week of reckoning
The Tories were revolting and Irish planning legislation was bolting. This is the Gist.
Data
The Gist: National Surveillance, the Rush Job
The Government is trying to rush through a bad law on their national surveillance regime. This is the Gist.
US
The Gist: Roe v Wade, assayed
The US Supreme Court continues its efforts to transport America back to the 19th Century. This is the Gist.
UK
The Gist: A Crisis of Confidence
After the Johnson crisis of confidence, vapourware policy announcements, minority-blaming and petty cruelty are all that is left to him. A fitting, if unpleasant, end for the Brexit Tory project.
UK
The Gist: Sickened
Britain’s Govt made a show of themselves again. In the US, infants were murdered while police loitered aimlessly nearby. This is the Gist.
Ireland
The Gist: Exit, Voice and Loyalty
The NMH debate revealed the most valued behaviour in a political system devoted to protecting groupthink.
National Maternity Hospital
The Gist: The Maternity Hospital, in brief
After a week of assertion and counter-assertions we're settling on a generally agreed set of facts about the new National Maternity Hospital plan.
Ireland
The Gist: The Maternity Hospital’s Difficult Birth
A spooked Cabinet refused to approve the Maternity Hospital deal after a mobilisation campaign saw TDs' phones and emails hopping. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Meet the New Gist!
Things have changed for the Gist this week. Seeing as it only exists because you like to read it, I thought this might be a good moment to do my first ever post on writing a newsletter. This is the Gist’s gist!