Ireland, EU must be mindful of Dominic Cummings

Is it too much to hope that politicians and civil servants, when they’re not busy using the Leinster House internet resource for essential research on high-end sex dolls, Germany’s gay demi-monde, lingerie, horse racing, and gambling, might turn their attention to what could be at work in the mind of Dominic Cummings?

He is the political strategist credited with the wholly unanticipated success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK’s 2016 referendum. Now Boris Johnson’s special adviser in charge of secession planning, his will be a mind of interest — as the police might have it — to politicians in Dublin and other EU capitals as they think about the diminishing number of moves left to be played on the Brexit chessboard.