Séamas O'Reilly: 'We’ve watched as the worst people on Earth have had the best days of their lives'

We may not wish for so many outrages to be heaped upon us, but we must continue to consider them outrageous

Séamas O'Reilly: "Mostly, we’re forced to feed off fumes, on nebulously meaningful gesture politics like Democratic senator Cory Booker speaking for 25 hours straight about the local and global threat to morality and decency posed by Donald Trump’s administration — just two days before he voted to approve $8.8bn more in arms sales to Israel."

The news that Liz Truss was to release her own social media platform brought a cheer to me this week. 

The former British PM announced this at ‘a cryptocurrency conference in Bedford’ — five of the most beautifully accursed words I’ve ever read — where she compared the current UK media landscape to ‘Soviet Russia’ and promised a forum that was “uncensored and uncancellable, to actually talk about the issues people don’t want to talk about”.