I’ve tried to sugar the medicine, adding what insight I can, what hope I can muster, and what jokes I’m allowed. It’s been a true joy to discover I was allowed pretty much everything, and for that I have the Irish Examiner to thank.

"America’s most ardent soccer fans are staying home because they see this for what it is: Trump turning the entire tournament into a cardboard box propped up with a stick to ensnare migrants, and FIFA eagerly abetting him in this endeavour."

"The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena because they have so few migrants that any other excuse is patently absurd."

Every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North.

It’s a war crime and it’s been going on for almost the entirety of the conflict. So what has changed in the past few weeks?

I could write an article just like this one every single day, each filled with brand-new examples of AI’s constant enshittification of the media we consume

'Immigrants contribute more to the British economy than they withdraw'

I feel confident in calling it one of the funniest television programs made this decade.

Punk and hip-hop bands have been singing about killing queens and presidents for decades

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade or so ago