I’ve taken to referring to my counterfeit Heights operation as 'Lengths'

I am venturing to be more present in the moment, more grateful for the little things, more positive in my outlook on the world and all that’s in it

"...TV has come a long way, but still our methods of surveying the cream of its crop have stagnated, beset by award shows incapable of truly connecting with viewers..."

"...first leaves and sticks, then branches and plastic bottles, and finally objects — fence posts, patio umbrellas, infants of Prague — that had no business speeding past in a massive, broiling soup of airborne debris..."

I’m on hand to give you the lowdown on the sparkliest baubles on the cinematic Christmas tree

"“It’s simple”, I say, “it’s like how if you praise an arsonist enough, he’ll eventually become a fireman. It’ll all work out in the end”. If this seems strange, please be assured that it is."

“We flagellate ourselves too much in Ireland” said Donal Ryan at one of the talks, when the subject of the mother and baby homes came up. “But we congratulate ourselves a lot too” replied Caoilinn Hughes, to a consensus of laughter.

"Bluesky, for many new adoptees, is that friend’s house: a space that has all the actual functions Twitter once had but without the nostril-burning excremental odour we’ve all trained ourselves to ignore."

"Mortified that someone would fuss over me, I adopted a breezily upright gait and a neutral expression — this achieved the desired effect but led, almost immediately, to the opposite emotional response within me: I found myself distantly offended that no one seemed to care.

"I am not in the business of rehabilitating the image of Trump voters — the combined ranks of the American media have spent nearly 10 years doing enough of that already — but this is too simple an explanation for what appears to have happened."