The Other Hand

By Jim Power & Chris JohnsSociety & Culture Business News

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July 23, 2025 A cunning plan. It might just work !
Long thought to be extinct - evidence of strategic thinking spotted
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31 min
July 20, 2025 Trump breaks with Murdoch. And the US economy keeps humming along
The tariff threat hasn't gone away
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31 min
July 17, 2025 Will the OTB kill the Irish Economy? Real house prices: context if not consolation
Trump to fire Powell?
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34 min
July 13, 2025 Everyone is left behind in the UK. Vance tries to put lipstick on a pig
All the latest data
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28 min
July 10, 2025 At last! the solution to the housing crisis: build match boxes!
Why didn't we think of this before?
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33 min
July 06, 2025 Should Ireland care about the UK's slide into despair?
Not much
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41 min
July 02, 2025 10% tariffs + 15% exchange rate hit = economic carnage?.
UK's Labour goes from bad to worse
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35 min
June 27, 2025 Irish politics today: paralysed by indecision. But is that what we want?
We begin with a slightly idiosyncratic - and highly stylised - discussion of how Ireland went from a nation of farmers to a high-tech economy, missing out on industrialisation. Our focus is on one very simple question: Having got Ireland to ‘here’, why is the current crop of leaders incapable of dealing with known problems that have known solutions?

Previous generations of politicians and civil servants eventually took big and brave decisions. Perhaps backbone discovery requires a crisis. But we have had plenty of those recently, and have at least one right now. And nothing ever changes. Where are the giants now? The ones who, like Alan Dukes - and others - many years ago, took great personal career risks to do the right thing?

Has democracy reached its limits? Small, sometimes single-person, blocking coalitions can impede or stop any policy they don’t like. NIMBYism on steroids. Many economies will recognise this one.
Today’s crop of very smart politicians have worked out that the route to success - or mere survival - is to never make a mistake, never annoy anyone. That means never taking a decision. Let others do that and watch them fall by the wayside. Rise without trace.
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26 min
June 23, 2025 War: A podcast special
Nobody knows anything
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34 min
June 22, 2025 Are house prices really that high? Stagflation, interest rates and Switzerland
Normalisation of the grotesque continues apace
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29 min