It’s like watching Westworld, but in real life.
For the next four years, it will be the left, and the left alone, that mourns the end of norms. Even as Biden smashes one, on his way out the door.
The rioters, it turned out, had the basic facts right.
McWilliams got the easy bit right. It might be a few more years before he feels safe enough to say the next bit out loud.
Debt, manufacturing, immigration – and how to measure whether he gets anything done.
Also: Ceasefire in Gaza, Ministries for everyone, beds for nobody, and why Say Nothing says something.
The world will not, and should not, miss him.
This time, there’s nobody else to blame if it all goes sideways.
These people are their own worst enemies, if you ask me.
Don’t laugh at the sucker. Or do. But recognise that it could be you.
Returning to normal is, of course, a good thing. Fintan’s objection to it, I think, says far more about his belief system than almost anything else he has ever written.
We should not all be made to live like idiots, just because idiots exist.