Ireland has a Government whose mouth writes cheques its ass can’t cash.
Putting Richard Boyd Barrett’s ideas about the housing market into practice is a lot like putting an eight year old at the wheel of a formula one car.
And when you have a media that is dependent on the Government for its very existence, how can you trust them to hold that Government to account?
“They do not represent me”
It’s a funny thing, in 2022, to live in a modern, tolerant, compassionate country like Ireland.
It might just be time to have a reckoning with the fact that the Irish media and political establishment is suffering from an exceptionally demented case of Anglophobia.
For the decline is not even, truly, mourned by our rulers. It is embraced with a vigor and a passion that has, as I have written before, an openly religious quality.
The person who allegedly authored this week’s plea for good counsel finds themselves in conflict with their partner over the question of whether to have children.
Once you give Government a tool to do something, it’s always the first thing civil servants reach for when a crisis hits.
When everything is a crisis, something needs to change.
We know that twitter’s moderation teams tend to be young graduates, few if any of them with journalism training. It is abundantly clear that many of them make decisions based on vibes, not evidence.
“Trust the science.”