SOC CA Caramel Macchiato Merit Over Patronage: Redesigning the Philippine Civil Service A government cannot outperform the people inside it — and ours is trapped between loyalty and competence.
SOC AI SPR SI Simon Lewis The Catholic Church Has the Least to Lose if Sacraments Leave Schools You don’t need much imagination to picture the scene: an eight-year-old girl and her mother, side by side at a salon, getting their…
HUM SI Simon Lewis Where Are All the Men in Primary School Teaching? Walk into any Irish primary school and you may find that male teachers are a rare sight. Men have become an endangered species in Ireland’s…
TCH SOC SPR SI Simon Lewis Social Democrats’ ‘Genius’ Motion The Social Democrats are tabling a motion in Dáil Éireann essentially asking for the government to reinstate its position on opening 400…
MKT SI Simon Lewis In 1969, They Defended Corporal Punishment. In 2025, It’s Patronage. In the Irish Times obituary of Dr Cyril Daly, it states that when he campaigned for the abolition of corporal publishment, he has many…