Tech policy - The Briefing

Irish Politics

Beck-and-call or Bust: Tech looms over this election, but as fiscal policy, not a campaign tool

Between Trump's appointees, mobile tech capital and changing tax rules, we are facing a possible fiscal cliff. Yet we are still hearing 2007-style auction politics. Where is the vision for a less FDI dependent economy?

Internet Culture

From "Happy Slaps" to today's political violence

Are we seeing an unholy alliance between far right radicalisation, and the exhibitionist nihilism that emerged almost as soon as the camera phone did?

Tech policy

Simon Harris has had enough; where will that energy take us?

Simon Harris has come out swinging for Big Tech; a much needed tone shift at the top of Government. But what happens next will determine if we turn around our reputation in Europe, or descend into a pointless beef with a Silicon Valley manchild