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.
This being a democracy, we get what we vote for. In this case, it appears that the public voted for a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael scramble for Ministries and Mercs.
Would it bother me if my wife earned substantially more than I did? Yes. Yes it would.
How do you improve upon the most moral and good little country ever conceived of by mankind?