Five years of accidental – and at times deliberate – sabotage.
Lockdown, a dangerous stupid policy decision then, which turned out to be a dangerous and stupid policy decision five years on.
I got it wrong, in many ways and at many times.
Who could have seen this coming? Many, apparently.
Described this as “unfortunate”.
As ever, the basic rule of thumb is the same: Authoritarianism for thee, pleb. But not for me.
Employers, not employees, should call the shots.
For the next four years, it will be the left, and the left alone, that mourns the end of norms. Even as Biden smashes one, on his way out the door.
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.
Peak Covid madness
There is at least one candidate on every ballot paper who would have joined the chorus of the questioning over the past five years, rather than the legions of consensus. Those candidates should be the ones you support, in our estimation.
Zero Covid did not work, anywhere it was tried. The Government was smart enough to realise it was a stupid idea then, but it’s dumb enough to appoint one of the chief proponents of the idea today.