READ: The gendering of leadership
Gendering of ‘leadership’ has been deeply ingrained in our everyday, unconscious thinking, especially male thinking, despite all the advances of recent decades.
READ: Where are the great speeches?
Boris Johnson, who fancied himself as a ‘political leader’, bid his farewell with a declarative “Hasta la vista, baby”, a demeaning utterance in the context of a retiring prime minister speaking to the mother of all parliaments, if ever there was one.
READ: What do we mean, when we use the word ‘leadership’? – Part 2
Boris Johnson defends himself against the charge that he is a “bad apple” (Kevin Brennan MP), saying “I am proud of the way I have been able to offer leadership in difficult times” (https://bit.ly/3yTlKUP). When you hear such from Johnson, what do you think he means by ‘leadership’?
READ: What do we mean, when we use the word ‘leadership’? – Part 1
Fintan O’Toole has been one of the keenest observers and an acute commentator on the characters of Johnson and Trump and how their characteristics have damaged the political fabric of two major democracies.
