We exist, increasingly, in a cultural environment where we can never be quite sure whether what we are reading was written by a human or LLM

Nobody else representing Ireland in any official capacity seems prepared to speak out against the collective punishment of the Cuban people

If there is one thing that seems to complicate the US leader’s bottomless nihilism, it is the market

Pumped-up White House videos about Iran conflict are extreme even by recent US standards

A tourist trail that focuses on historical connections between Ireland and America – and which treats, say, Andrew Jackson as just as Irish-American in his way as JFK – is not a terrible idea

I’m not convinced that AI evangelists like Sam Altman really understand how strange and creepy they come across when they talk about the future

The reductive vision of a bucolic Irish past might seem absurd to most Irish people, but it lands in a different way for conservative Americans

Delusion that climate change might take the edge off Ireland’s rubbish weather has finally been laid to rest

Moltbook is an internet forum modelled closely on Reddit - except it is only used by AI bots

It’s possible to see that some good might come of the chaos. We might even, in time, become less relentlessly focused on our own particular region of the world

I am by no means a Ryanair booster. And yet I have glimpsed the possibility – remote though it may be – of the airline’s customer experience actually worsening

Is the economic order under which we live even capable of providing us with basic necessities?

As weird and unpleasant as the flood of sexualised AI images on X is, the prompts used to create them are even more disturbing

Johnson has previously attracted attention for his practice of taking detailed measurements of his nocturnal erections

The early modern Europeans had the printed book. We have videos of guys talking on podcasts