An error of judgement? I have been accused, even in high places, of being over-severe in my assessment of the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by Ireland. It is obviously not the Irish people who are the subject of my rage. Everyone is free to make their own choices, and every choice is respectable. The EU and the EU institutions are the not the sole holders of wisdom and good action, far from it. But I do believe it is essential to make the consequences of what one decides clear. In the past,...