"We are not going to know who adopted the best tactics to minmise fatalities from this virus "
It's not a ****** competition Iains and making it such is going to lessen the possibilities of co-operation - no-one wants 'other other side' to win
Those who represent us and those connected with us are all we can concern ourselves with and Britain and Ireland are close enough in distance culture and history to learn from one another
Britain only admits its shortcomings when it has no other alternative - under the first-past-the-post system and the fact that they have the popular media in their pockets, they are allowed to get away with that
For all its shortcomings, our system doesn't make that so easy
Johnson has now come clean, at least on one important issue - it's about time his supporters did likewise
Defending faults with whataboutism, which is what competition like this is really about - only makes matters worse
Jim Carroll