The Other Hand

Why Ireland lost in a game of the finest of margins - really.

On the numbers, Ireland and New Zealand could replay that game, deploy the same players and tactics, and Ireland would win 9 games out of 10. This was the tenth game.

What about Ireland going forward - looking good, even in terms of replacing Jonny Sexton. Tight Head Prop, a massively under-rated position, could be more problematic.

How is it possible that England are the only undefeated side in the World Cup?

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Professor Charlotte Cavaillé is a global expert on inequality and redistribution. Her extensive research program has reframed the discussion such that our perceptions of fairness are front and centre. With some surprising results.

In many countries, particularly the US and UK, inequality has risen. Economists might argue that self-interested electorates, which contain increasing numbers of people suffering form inequality, might start calling for more redistribution. But the evidence says not. Moreover, in France, where inequality has not risen in US-style fashion, people are convinced they live in ever worse economic conditions.

The more we think about this, the more complicated things become. Professor Cavaillé urges us, persuasively, to think about the issues in new ways.

If we focus on who we are redistributing from, we might get a very different discussion compared to when we focus on who we are redistributing to. Fat cats in the 1% or benefit scrounging freeloaders?

The immigration debate is salient everywhere. Breaking down - understanding our societal norms about fairness & proportionality - help to explain why, Danish-style, allowing migrants to work - to earn - has more popular appeal than giving them benefits. It might even make sense - countries that restrict or forbid migrant employment take note.

We discuss all this and more with Charlotte as she takes us through her brilliant new book 'Fair Enough"

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Do we have a right brain problem? Author and journalist Matthew Syed said so in a recent fascinating Sunday Times column.

Professor of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, Shane O'Mara, says no.

So why is our political discourse, pretty much everywhere, so polarised, context & nuance free, and just so nasty?

Why, when we know, with as much certainty as we can muster, that the world is a very uncertain place, is everyone so certain?

Shane is tempted to say that the world was ever thus and Chris & Jim should stay off Twitter.

Point taken, but the authoritarian, conspiracy loving nut jobs do seem to have the upper hand - or at least are making more noise.

In this podcast, AI is confused with AIB. That is a step too far.

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In an Irish Times Article that has gone globally viral, journalist Nathan Johns, @nathanrjohns, analysed data that suggests S. Africa might have won that match. Perhaps even deserved to win that match.

But they lost.

Why?

Numbers are not quite everything it seems. Nearly everything, but not everything.

Chris looks forward to a Wales victory in the semi final. Maybe even against Ireland.

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