Joyce Fegan: Covid is a fertile breeding ground for conspiracies

Scratch below the historical surface of conspiracy theories and you'll find they have always been used to create a radicalising pathway by far right movements globally

The doctors and nurses will be working overtime this Christmas making sure the rest of us stay alive. Their only job is to keep us safe, and they don't even need our vote,.

Up until now, the job of the Government has been, for the most part, to keep the madding crowd happy.

Keep enough of them happy and you’ll reach the quota in your constituency on election day — what everyone else thinks or says about you becomes irrelevant, if your skin is suitably thick.