Our values are upside down if our priority is to reduce top rate of tax

YOU contacted me in your droves last week and expressed yourselves in words of one syllable — all because I queried the significance of the John McNulty debacle.

Over the years, we’ve had beef scandals, planning scandals, banking scandals, political scandals and no end of financial scandals.

We’ve had political strokes of all sorts, to do with everything from passports to primary-care centres. I just couldn’t elevate the cock-up over a Senate candidacy to the same league. Stupid, I know, but there you are.