Irish Coalition needs a political story that matches their actual efforts
Brendan Keenan has clearly been cogitating on our quaint northern mess we call politics, and it takes him back to stories, narrative and selling your own (albeit austerity locked) virtues: The story which the Coalition set out to tell – most of which it inherited from the previous government – is no longer true. The facts have changed. Keynes observed that when this happens you must change your mind. But you must also change your story. The original story called …