Sometimes, the need for comforting national stories outweighs the need to face the possibility that the story is wrong. We were all in it together.
The problem here, he says, is that there was a lack of “transparency from the outset”.
There is no good reason why public servants should not be sackable on the grounds of incompetence, or under-performance.
“How did it happen and why?”
Pourquoi?
These have been long, dark, miserable years. Covid 19 bears much of the blame for that. As a society though, our own share of the blame is much, much, greater than we will ever admit to ourselves.
But data can be accurate, and misleading, in a number of ways.
We do not see journalists interviewing the Government’s advisors on economic policy to ascertain whether they approve of Government decisions.
Parents say children terrified by prospect
The truth is that every single effort to stop covid has failed.
We discussed this briefly in my other piece this morning, but it deserves a story of its own. There are two points here: The first is that it demonstrates that even the King himself is not immune to political pressure. The second, obviously, is the question of how long this discrimination on the basis of […]
He’s quite right, too. Partying in the street like common gougers. Properly civilised people have their parties with a glass of wine in one hand, and some tasteful finger-food in the other, in the more refined surroundings of somewhere like, say, the Merrion Hotel: Scenes outside Croke Park last Sunday were unacceptable and lessons need […]