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How about Anna Karenina ? Better still, And Quiet Flows The Don by Sholokhov.

@Purple Did the best I could with a phone pic. Just about readable. The James O'McKinsey instead of James O. McKinsey is curious. Could it be a voice-to-text typo from a scribe too lazy to type ? Or is it in fact genuine ignorance - or worse still an attempt to portray the founder as a...

A very readable piece on last issue of the Sunday Times tells us that the famed #1 global management consultancy is overstaffed, underworked and, lately at least, trading outside its established zones of expertise to get revenue. Apparently someone in McKinsey UK broke cover to write a letter...

The Shinners are up to their necks in builder/developer antics. And they won't get in anyhow - it'll just be some sort of amalgam of indos and big parties. o_O

My point there was in answer to your point about our ineffectual governments to date (agreed) and the health service. Basically I am saying that democratic government can effect change without being tossed out by citizens inconvenienced by side-effects of the transformation due to the 4 year...

@Purple If you absolve a government of its obligation to lead (and, if needs be, drive) positive correction in critical areas of citizens' lives then we are on a road to anarchy. The term of an Irish government is long enough to effect enough change to convince a comfortable majority of...

Keep out of it, Leo.

You are blaming who for the health crisis ? The HSE managers ? Are you saying that HSE senior management would be backed up by a minister for health if they sacked a few useless surgeons or consultants and the other consultants threatened a strike ? Do you believe that a builder has an...

Politicians in other EU democracies achieve good progress in health and housing - so the problem is not one resulting from the limitations of a democratic structure on political decision-making, is it ?

I mean if our pols did their job properly, e.g. on housing, hospital queues, etc, then people wouldn't be so contemptuous of them.

No. But wouldn't a lot of doctors benefit from having worked in an ordinary job with more mundane horizons ? I mean a job with no kow-towing to their professional body, no brown-nosing senior guys, no licence to ask clients private questions in a snooty manner and then ask them to strip for a...

Two Irish Times readers' views: I am very much in agreement with Art O Laoghaire: Harris never having served his time at any regular trade/profession has shielded him from the huge amount of experience of abuse, corruption, lunacy and stupidity that the rest of us have had to swallow. But...

As novelistically vague as you can get - a bit like Bertie's claim to have worked in the accounts department of the old Mater Hospital . . . It might be technically true for Creaton to say that if passing Part I of the ACA (or being given credit for it as he already had completed the...

I have to agree that, in a practical sense, this is 100% true for the "strive" amendment. Any challenge to the state's adequacy in striving to compensate "voluntary" carers (a complete misnomer, I know, since family/friends are the last ditch for all of us) is bound to end up in legalistic...

:eek: Just keep clear of Eir or whatever they call themselves these days.

Which makes is what now ? €64 a month ? I dropped out at €55. Couldn't take the financial pace . . .

Yeah, he was more like straining to come across as concerned than to simply come across. All right but the problem is that Shortty's bumped-up stipendio of €120k - €150k is the true cost of this new economics correspondent appointment to the RTE organization. Was the old Director of Legal...

Some minor detail.

What is Robert Shortt of RTE playing at? He's on the RTE board as staff rep last summer, piously trotting in to Dáil Committee hearings to tell us how sorry he felt, and how sorry the hard-working journalists felt, about RTE's embarrassing woes. Oh, Robbie, don't take it so bad, it wasn't your...

How much for Pure's offer ?