Paying the ultimate price for democracy
Politicians won’t be cutting the close ties they have with their constituents
It was an eerily-timed observation by the Taoiseach last Thursday morning, when he used an investment announcement to philosophise that “we live in a very uncertain world, one that is changing rapidly”. He was hinting at the looming possibility that Britain would vote to leave the European Union next week – a vote he could not directly address in the campaign-free zone of Google’s data centre where he addressed a small audience. But ...
