I have written before how Brian Cowen regrets that he failed to find sufficient place for ‘imagination’ in his time in politics. In the last public speech he made, not long before he suffered a serious stroke, he addressed this directly. It was an interesting observation but one that got little attention. Brian is widely read, a reflective man, who greatly admires the ideas of the late Irish philosopher, John O’Donohue.  In that speech, in July 2017, he referenced O’Donohue’s criticism of the political establishment as, ‘devoid of vision, in becoming more synonymous with economics’ and said he’d allowed his…

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