Leo kicked off the silly season, but serious politics are back with a bang

How do you know when the silly season has begun? When the pages of the newspapers are full of a spat between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the entire journalistic corps.

And when that spat is about journalism. Not about Brexit, or the worsening homelessness crisis, or the scandal of the HSE’s attitude to disclosure, but just about Leo being nasty to journalists.

Oscar Wilde said “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”.