Day 7's Campaign Gist and we suddenly wake, blinking, into a new world. Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre The Doldrums are behind us, the next polls are out and the metallic tastes of panic and power are co-existing in almost everyone's mouth. The efforts
Day 6 of the Campaign and there was no way I wasn't going to do one on that poll. The Poll It takes a special sort of genius to launch your election campaign by telling the public that they're juvenile for not supporting your Black and
As it’s a weekend, Campaign Gist takes a slightly different format. Doldrums The election campaign seems to be running in some distant, sealed part of the country. This isn’t necessarily from any lack of local effort by candidates. Doubtless, doors are being knocked on, hands shaken at shopping
Day 4. Your Campaign Gister has come down with a fever. Some of the below may, therefore, be be the product of an overheated mind. Death It is proving an unfortunate theme of this campaign that each day is accompanied with news of a terrible crime. First a 17 year
Day 3 of the campaign, which by some quirk has also always been happening. Brexit Merit Badges Today presented more evidence that, contrary to all that is sane and rational, Fine Gael are genuinely invested in talking about Brexit to win votes. A voter may say to themselves “Why should
Campaign Gist is in an unusually somber mood today. A homeless man was critically injured while industrial machinary was used to remove his tent while he was in it. A photograph of the Minister for Housing's poster hanging above the scene of the incident went viral. The Taoiseach
It’s the Gist! In an election! So it’s the Campaign Gist! Shorter and more ruthlessly selective than ever. Posters Fizzogs on lampposts mean only one thing- post-revolutionary terror and hangings from the street furniture. Unless it’s an election, in which case we are treated to lovely photos
Euro-Drama A day and a night and then another day without sleep. Only hotel banquet food and take-out for sustenance. The leaders of the 27 member states of the EU unhappily discovered themselves in a sort of Irish Hotel Wedding Experience as the price for trying to decide who would
Back now , for the moment. On we go. G20: Occidental Winners After discovering that putting tariffs on Chinese goods led to China putting tarrifs on US goods, the US president demonstrated his mastery of dealmaking by reversing himself, and declaring himself the winner of the whole thing at the G20
Reportedly Here at The Gist, we like to squeeze things down for you. So, imagine how helpful it is to find that a whole set of unrelated but proximate stories suddenly crammed themselves together. On the day that saw a new set of reporting restrictions to limit reporting/tweeting of
UK just can't Spain complained. If the withdrawal deal applied to Gibraltar, then they would veto it. It took the UK four days to respond- "Grand, whatever, no applying the deal to Gibraltar. We just can't any more." No point fighting to the ends
Trenchant criticism of defaced installation Somebody didn't like the 18 foot sculpture of a WW1 soldier installed at the enterance of St Stephen's Green. They sprayed red paint over its bottom half. Though this isn't the most constructive form of social criticism, it is