Irish Examiner View: Down the rabbit hole with Boris

The Irish public are ill-prepared to understand how Boris Johnson's outrageous shenanigans are tolerated.

We have witnessed this week on television the spectacle of the British prime minister insisting that he didn’t break strict Covid restrictions when he attended a party in the garden of 10 Downing Street in London. 

The 19th-century English writer Lewis Carroll was a keen observer of human nature in all its manifestations. In his book, Through The Looking Glass, the main protagonist Alice meets the White Queen, who informs her that her age is: “…one hundred and one, five months and a day”.

“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.