In recent days, the movie’s trailer accumulated 2.5 million “dislikes” on Youtube
We all know, I think – those of us who pay attention to this stuff – what the official Irish attitude to China is.
And these are the same people, of course, who claim that Dairy Farmers are the enemy of all that is good and natural. It’d make you sick.
When you strip people of all incentives for good behaviour, you get bad behaviour. This is neither new, nor hard to understand.
But of course, “nationalise the energy sector” is not a serious proposal, and nor is it intended to be.
The Monarchy is not only dispensing honours – it’s also dispensing a sort of national glue, binding people to itself in orders of chivalry and distinction.
Here, we’re shaking the whole thing up just to give another set of children their go playing with the toys.
The Nixon rule, really, has been at the very heart of the Northern Peace Process from the start.
Just because an idea makes sense on paper does not make it good.
The “far right” will now be in Government, which is very useful, because we will see just how “far right” they really are.
And of course, our media lapped it up, and published it, without so much as a word of objection.
Russia’s greatest strength, politically, was the notion that it could not be beaten. This weekend, its army was routed. That will change the political calculus considerably.