Varadkar comments align him with an enemy of democracy

How would any right-thinking person make this comparison, a week after five people were shot dead at the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, writes Alison O'Connor

When Carole Cadwalladr, an investigative journalist with the Guardian and Observer newspapers, won the Orwell journalism prize at the end of June, she described the work as akin to “being strapped to a freight train for the last 18 months”.

The prize, awarded by the Orwell Foundation for the best political writing of the year, was for her investigation into the collapsed political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, an agency that helped to elect Donald Trump to the US presidency.