"British courts do not allow cameras and, presumably, Sky News thought that the traditional route for covering such things — pastel courtroom drawings, voiced over with monotone quotes from proceedings — lacked panache, so instead they had their actor stand in the studio, directly giving Harry’s testimony to the host"

"May the road rise to meet you - a charming message, hailing back to the days when Irish peoples’ lives were more in communion with the elements"

"Within micro-seconds, we become the centre of a meme which would entwine myself and Tommy in a braid of mutual empathy for all time."

"In fairness, if your party has been in charge of the country for over a decade and delivered complete ruin to its economy, institutions, and quality of life, while becoming mired in innumerable scandals, incompetence, avarice and cruelty, you can’t exactly run on policy."

"My first 10 years alive saw us win five titles in that time alone, back when we were the unassailable masters of the maudlin euro hit - usually eschewing the up-tempo dynamics of our continental cousins"

'The UK is undergoing the greatest cost-of-living crisis in living memory, with around 20% of its population in poverty, and two to three million using food banks each year.'

"...imagine acquiring a platform on which nearly every single famous person on the planet, from Lebron James to the Pope, was an active user - then imagine inducing nearly all of those people to definitely broadcast that they would never pay you to do so..."

"Knowing, or even suspecting, what was going to happen in that Succession episode was mildly annoying, sure, but that feeling left me the second my mental faculties adjusted to focusing on how it was done..."

"Confusing the All Blacks with the Black and Tans was, let’s be honest, a masterstroke - as was his choice to greet the fine spread in a Dundalk deli with the exclamation “I don’t know why my ancestors left!""

"The entire controversy over this artwork appears to be a deliberate, and almost laughably clumsy, attempt to distract from the fact that thousands of people in Ireland are currently facing eviction from their homes"