Irish Examiner view: Fin de siècle feeling to Johnson regime

Christmas blues

Prime Minister Boris Johnson attending the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Guildhall in central London. Picture date: Monday November 15, 2021.

That clucking noise reaching a crescendo that you might be able to hear across the Irish Sea could be the sound of chickens coming home to roost. They may be fowls of different hues and shapes and sizes but collectively they create a lot of flutter.

At the epicentre of this is Boris Johnson, a standing joke to many people in Ireland and, increasingly it seems for many of the British, including his own colleagues, a joke of the very worst kind ― a joke which has gone on too long.