Depp emerged from the wreckage with nothing more than superficial bruising, while Heard — whom the UK legal system originally believed — was crushed and mangled

"The belief system within the Trump cult, noisily propagated by his own ALL CAPS OUTRAGE, is that he is the ongoing victim of a conspiracy to silence him. He is a victim, and his followers are victims."

The Eurovision has an honourable history of being the gayest, campest, most trans-friendly event ever on international TV, even as it is beamed into homes in countries where LGBTQIA+ rights are decidedly compromised

"Walkers are doing King Prawn Cocktail and Regal Lamb & Mint – let them eat crisps – while one of Charles’ estates, Highgrove, is doing Fortnum & Mason Queen Consort Honey – yes, Camilla honey, no laughing at the back – for £40 a jar."

"...delighted to distract from the big stuff – climate crisis, late capitalism plundering our lives, the price of cheese – by pitting a tiny marginalised minority against intransigent TERF ideology."

"Did you find yourself Googling a bit frantically about tongues and Tibetans, to see if there might be a reasonable explanation, rather than everyone’s favourite Buddhist having taken leave of his senses, or worse? Me too."

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