Jennifer O'Mahony | The Nation

The Irish government can bend for a British monarch, it seems, but it cannot apply the same rigid discipline to tax cheats and reckless investors.

The government is making life immeasurably harder for some of the country’s poorest people.

The British government's planned education spending cuts sparked a demonstration on Wednesday, when tens of thousands took to the streets and a handful of militants broke the windows on the ground floor of Millbank Tower, home of the Conservatives.