Summer beach read? ‘This novel is compatible with sand’ is hardly a great selling point
As we outsource more of our thinking to the machine I am increasingly convinced “mental effort” - including when it comes to reading - is not just useful but a moral good
Will Andy Burnham’s ‘business friendly socialism’ save Britain from Farage?
The greatest case people make for Burnham is that he will make the patriotic argument against Reform at the election
Could three glasses of wine derail your life? Only if you live like Steven Bartlett
And yes, I feel as stupid writing ‘looksmaxxing’ as you do reading it. But these ideas are not as novel as they seem
I’m with Andrew Scott and Phoebe Bridgers. If you’re at a gig, put your phone away
It is rude to go to a concert only to record the entire moment on your phone – it is isolating for everyone there too
The Leaving Cert is dense, demanding and far superior to the UK’s A-levels
With its seven, maybe eight subjects, the Leaving Cert cherishes the value of the generalist. In the UK, a 16-year-old may be studying just three
Arsenal have become the club of the Irish diaspora
Premier League title triumph was met with an outpouring of joy from an exceedingly good-natured mob
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey isn’t evidence of a cultural void. It’s the opposite
With a little hindsight we will know what is interesting about the 2020s. It won’t be Marvel franchises, but it could be Taylor Swift
Keir Starmer is bland, stable, boring – he should have gone a long way
The beleaguered UK prime minister may not be entirely up to the moment – but as moments go, who would be?
Finn McRedmond: Let’s not cling to ugly buildings because a few Dubliners are allergic to change
Let’s not cling to ugly, unloved buildings just because a few Dubliners are allergic to change
Ireland should learn a lesson from UK’s futile efforts at pleasing Trump
It made sense for Britain to send the king rather than Keir Starmer to Washington, but it won’t make much difference
Dear political parties. Now is really not the time to talk about deposing your leader
The threshold at which politicians seek to overthrow their leader should be much, much higher than this (I am looking at you too, Fianna Fáil)
Now you can see Edvard Munch’s The Scream in ‘film form’, but why would you want to?
Talk about a solution to a non-existent problem. Or an answer to a question no one asked
The British government has no business in banning Kanye West from the country
Free-speech absolutism is the only logical position in modern democracy. Yes, even when the speech is as base and bigoted as this
The naysayers are right. Restaurants are frivolous – and that’s why we need more of them
Where else are we supposed to gossip about our colleagues over a bottle of Chianti? The basement of the Google offices in Grand Canal Dock?
Anti-Semitic attacks in Britain carry a stark warning for Ireland
When a political energy metastasises into something much darker, we have to be able to call it what it is