If you view the war not as a conflict between rational actors, but a conflict between a rational state and a death cult, then it all begins to make more sense
The average Irish household is not draped in LGBT iconography, and the automatic assumptions of progressivism are not immediately perceived as virtuous in the way that they are inside the bubble.
It is neat, in a way, that in the same morning we got to see the two faces of our Government. Voters will have to decide which face is the real one.
We shouldn’t be rewarding criminals for hoodwinking us.
There’s an inherent belief in official Ireland that certain ideologies are not truly “Irish”. It’s wrong.
After all, if the independent electoral commission was actually independent, would politicians have been so eager to set it up?
What do you do when the evidence suggests your own message is actively turning off voters, and you’ve just got one week left, when they’re scheduled to hear more of your message than ever before?
Welcome to the dark side, Ellen.
Responding quickly with accurate information is a necessity, because sometimes the wrong information can be published even by those acting in good faith.
The UK Government should tell the Americans, just this once, to bugger off.
It is Government interference in the market, not the market itself, that has caused this problem.
They are not the ones in prison. They are not the ones who will have to pay his fines. They are not the ones who, even as they revel in his martyrdom, will have to share it.