The primary theological difference between worship of the Christian God and worship of the underworld is that only one of those requires that you take responsibility for your actions
Middle class acceptability is a prerequisite for political success, and for the moment, for many of those seeking election on a patriotic platform, that ingredient is almost entirely lacking.
Fewer councillors means fewer Senators.
One of the basic jobs of elected officials is to see things coming. There are some candidates running in these elections who did see this problem coming, and warned about it.
Far down the ballot paper, it’s more about keeping people out than it is voting people in.
Odds and ends from the Editor.
The country is rarely able to have more than one major issue debated concurrently. Right now, immigration is the issue dominating the airwaves.
Voters, in a democracy, have a duty to themselves and their fellow citizens to be deeply skeptical.
Journalists should probably be fairer to such characters than we are.
Looking at the tents in Dublin, one gets a sense of national helplessness. A sort of “somebody else has to fix this” attitude that permeates the Dublin establishment.
I fear, looking at the mess in this one EU constituency, that a hard lesson is going to be learned by many people on June 7th.
As salesmen for what life in an Independent Scotland would be like, the SNP have done a better job of warning against it than any Englishman could.