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he’s been led by the nose into a position of dangerous ignorance, but he will end up crosser with the people who point it out to him than he will ever be with the people who did the leading.
You don’t like the way things are? Well, vote for me and I promise I’ll change things in ways no one else has ever promised. The louder the promise, the harder it is for voices pointing out its implausibility to be heard. Close to conclusive proof of this particular pudding resides, at the time of writing, in the White House.
Schrödinger’s immigrant – the one who simultaneously steals ‘our’ jobs and claims unemployment benefit while leading a life of state-subsidised indolence
authoritarian fraudsters only prosper when a population has been persuaded that an invisible enemy army exists.
We need a complete reversal of the idea that every argument has two equal sides, that every question is debatable and that every story needs to be ‘balanced’.
The same people who insisted that the solution was simple responded furiously to the EU’s insistence that things in Ireland would stay the same until that supposedly simple solution was in place.
