Eoghan Harris (Independent)

It teaches people how to deal with the public. Politics is about the rule of states and peoples. It starts with people. It is not an abstract issue. I accept there is a delusion among college students and certain of the younger sections of the political correspondents, not the old guard, that all one has to do is assemble people with first class honours degrees, involve them in politics and the country will be a land flowing with milk and honey. That is not how the real world works.