There’s a difference in other words between high status lunacy and low status lunacy.
If you believe it is nonsense, you have a duty to say so, even if it makes some grown man cry in his dress.
It’s the classic Irish political solution – do somethingism
They absolutely adore issues of public concern that have basically nothing to do with their own areas of responsibility.
This is going to create a lot of problems, for a lot of people – and most of them don’t even know it yet.
That’s the big cost of EU membership that nobody mentions.
Why are NGOs which do not really represent anyone allowed to continue to claim a mandate that they simply do not have?
It is safe to say that any other policy involving these kinds of cost would have been subject to an entirely different kind of public debate
Brands will not be lining up, it’s safe to say, to employ Mulvaney to endorse them moving forward.
In this atmosphere, the prospect of all the major players bleeding votes to alternative options at the next election is high
The fact is that for a great many public bodies, wasteful spending is now a way of life.
If they fail, you will pay for it, not them.