Irish Examiner view: Are there any lessons we should learn from covid?

Covid leaks

Matt Hancock was health secretary at the time of the covid crisis and appeared on 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' having been the subject of a controversy during restrictions.

What, if anything, could we possibly learn in Ireland from the Gilbertian scenarios which have emerged over the water from a former minister’s inspired decision to hand over thousands of Whatsapp messages to a journalist who he hoped would ghost write a favourable and reputation-enhancing biography about his handling of the covid-19 pandemic?

That those messages set out in cringeworthy detail the bloated sense of arrogance and disregard that political leaders and administrators have for their voters in a country which has had the same party in power for too long should not surprise us.