The weaponised shame directed at her by evangelical family-values supporters of the ex ‘president’ bounces off like bullets off steel

"In the US, Matthew Desmond says that liberals explain poverty as an insurmountable structural problem, while conservatives blame the poor directly for being poor."

Affordable housing for everyone requires us to stop viewing houses and flats as ‘investments’ — that is, goldmines with which to exploit the unhoused - and instead to see houses as they were originally intended: to provide shelter, security and comfort. 

Five Irish actors up for awards, said presenter Jimmy Kimmel, meant the chance of a red carpet fight increased fivefold. Or something like that. Whatever. It wasn’t funny

"A country unrecognisable from its very recent past, where misogyny was enshrined in law, children were bought and sold, hypocrisy and acquired blindness to truth a specialist Irish skill."

We are all hags — if not now, then sooner than you think and mid-life is frankly joyous — the most liberating and zero-fucks era of all

Stop it now, and allow Dahl’s work to live and breathe until the work expires naturally, the same way kids no longer read Billy Bunter or Just William or any of those other kids’ classics from the past.

It used to be that air travel was glamorous and train travel romantic. Now air travel is Ryanair and in Ireland, train travel has largely been concreted over. 

What if Leo DiCaprio were Lia DiCaprio, and the youth involved a string of young men?

Three years on, a full 9% of the population still support Brexit