"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

When news of her tour reached us, celebrating 40 years of her greatest hits, BBC Women’s Hour wondered if, “at her stage in life”, she wouldn’t prefer to stay home and count her money

She would have been 14 in February — 98 in dog years — which for a German Shepherd (or indeed anyone) is ancient

What’s interesting about Harry’s book and interviews is that he has punched a hole in the accepted narrative

I try to imagine offering Almond Mum advice to my own daughter, and the response I would get. She’d pity me, as she reached for the jar of almond butter to slather all over her toast, and suggest that I get a life