Dichotomy between all our institutional rules and how power behaves
We’re very careful in our organisations these days. Due diligence and corporate governance, policies for correct behaviour in this and that, qualifications scrutinised, codes of conduct, background checks. And yet … Over in that London the talk is all of sleaze and how the current government is trying to escape scrutiny, and, basically do what it likes to the benefit of those it likes . In Bulgaria and Romania vaccination numbers are critically low because, basically, the population doesn’t trust governments with a history of corruption. These are only a few examples. Here in Ireland, the land of saints and scholars, we never have these problems! Although a decade of tribunals into planning backhanders, dodgy meat sales, contaminated blood and other issues might persuade you differently. Certainly Dublin is in the ha’penny place compared to London. It’s common knowledge that lucrative contracts for services associated with the fight against Covid went to...