On this day in 1936 the German military annexed the Rhineland (this annexation is being used as it’s geographical push is the one that mostly mirrors what is happening currently and does not diminish the annexation of other areas during this time) on the border between the Netherlands, France, and…

This has been niggling at me the past few days and it would be amiss to not point out how some Irish elected reps have been acting in the build up to what has been happening the last couple of days, but feeling to a degree incredibly helpless in the…

Inflation is the big word so far into 2022. I’ve been keeping tabs on it which you can see here on the awl Twitter and if you want give it a follow. Anyways, let’s use the pricing of oil as the crux of this thought exercise to gauge how best…

As it has been written about extensively in other articles I have written on the state of Waterford city and county, as well as systemic and infrastructural neglect across the country for decades, I fear that this is just going to be another article of me repeating the drum banging…

Published: 23/February/2017 The Move from Globalisation to Planetisation In the spirit of seven new planets discovered orbiting around the single star in the TRAPPIST-1 system, this post will talk about the next level of economic output that humanity must achieve from our current level of ‘Globalisation’. Just like an atomic…

Published: 13/February/2017 The reason Game of Thrones is fantastically great is not only due to the narrative being highly detailed and easily readable, but also it speaks to the daily economic processes of decision making we have in life that we do not realise is based in economic ways of…

Originally Published: 12/January/2017 Looking back on society over the past few decades to the present day, it can be looked upon as a period of Anti-Intellectualism, or with focus on when these writings began in 2016, a more defined beginning with the start of the Post-Truth era, where facts and…

Originally Published: 31/December/2016 This is an expansion on the Celtic Phoenix article, specifically on the need for EU reform to make the EU idea work and pull away from the potential of driving off the economic cliff that will end up destroying the hopes of the people and ease of…

Originally Published: 23/December/2016 With the Virtual Reality industry in its infancy, once it takes root into everyday society and beings to grow it will eventually branch into many, already well-established, fields or it will help in the creation of new industries. This can open up new routes for education, ways…