Really though, I blame Peterson, who should have had the common decency to cut that line from the interview before he aired it.
There’s a strong argument that we could make the poorest people in Ireland better off by taxing their incomes at a higher rate, while drastically cutting the taxes that actually drive up the cost of living, like VAT and fuel duties.
This transformation of politics in the west from a battle of ideas to a battle of competing tribes of people convinced that a single defeat will bring the end of the world as we know it is, needless to say, not a great development.
If the Pope – this one or his predecessors – had any interest in saving the church in Ireland, he should have sacked every Irish Bishop twenty years ago and installed people from outside the country to completely reform the Irish Church, root and branch.
The Sinn Fein statement was almost perfectly calibrated to alienate all sides.
For Harris, the fencing along the canals runs a real risk of becoming a real electoral monument to his lack of judgment.
Also: The media embraces a role as propagandist, the EU tries to solve housing, and why “The Boys” is top telly.
The irony here is that almost anything you do to make her position more democratically accountable would also strengthen her power to set the agenda in Europe.
Staying on the right side of the line between steadfast civil disobedience and outright thuggery is a duty that all those who take on the responsibility of leading these protests will have to take on.
It is very hard to find, in human history, an example of the decline of a superpower which has been followed by an era of peace and harmony.
The single biggest reason, of course, for the electoral success of the Nazi party was the failure of other political groupings to address the problems of the German people.
There will be more riots, and more discontent, and more disorder. Whether people like me condemn it or not.