Tom Myatt | Senior Editor Seeing the news recently, one would be forgiven for thinking this was Russia in 1917, or France in the eighteenth century. But no, the daily populist rhetoric you hear is coming from modern-day Ireland, not over some repressive government that stops at nothing to harm its own people, but over a water charge of the type that every other country in Europe already has to pay. There are plenty of problems with the way the policy has been implemented, and the government hasn’t been properly transparent about it, but many critics have also crossed the line into ridiculousness.ADVERTISEMENT As somewhat … Continue reading Worked Up About Water