Is Brexit set to scupper Irish World Cup bid?

There are genuine reasons for concern over Brexit’s impact on Ireland’s bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, writes Paul Rouse.

The spectacle of English politics at the moment mixes high entertainment with low farce. Every current affairs programme on radio and TV seems on the cusp of degenerating into a sort of ‘Talk to Joe’, Liveline-style emotionalism. In the process, the old clichés of pragmatic stoicism, ‘stiff upper lip’, and empirical efficiency are rendered more absurd by the day.

The raw truth in this sorry tale of the implosion of England’s ruling elite is a straightforward one: They don’t know what they’re doing. And more than that, they don’t even seem to know what they want.