Monthly Archives: June 2021

No sense of reality

The Irish health minister says it is “too early” to decide whether pubs can open on 5th July. It looks like the government’s sense of the real world is as rock bottom now as it was last summer. This week … Continue reading

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Over the top

Later this week I am flying back to Dublin and it seems that the Irish government has decided to make the whole even more inconvenient than it already is by piling on extra requirements. Travellers are now required to: Take … Continue reading

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They were sacrificed

This one crept up on me. Even with a vaccine bounce the UK government lost one of its heartlands safe-seats in a by-election yesterday. And badly. A Remain-leaning London commuter-belt seat is not the sort of place where dog-whistling to … Continue reading

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