Irish Examiner View: Odd things are afoot in politics

It was the monumental Mr Johnson — Samuel, not Boris — who declared that nothing odd lasts long. Usually an astute observer, his words of wisdom have stood for more than 250 years, but they are being sorely tested on a number of fronts in both foreign and domestic settings.

Across the Atlantic, we have witnessed some very odd behaviour by two senior politicians, in the form of petulance in the US House of Congress.