What happens when you are backed by someone Europeans overwhelmingly oppose?
Leo’s new career? Roy Keane, but for politics.
As ever, the basic rule of thumb is the same: Authoritarianism for thee, pleb. But not for me.
Populism prevails.
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.
Under such reforms, the old national political establishment would lost much of its power. But so would national populist leaders and movements.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
It’s “elite” now in Ireland to earn €45,000 working as a policy officer for an NGO and to express your views on the climate emergency and the need for effective trans healthcare, but it is decidedly not elite to earn twice that amount as a plumber but to be worried about immigration and crime.
“You start by saying the truth.”
Book review
Ruthless
What does it say about our sense of ourselves as a country that our leaders, by contrast, are expected to fly economy?