Andy Burnham making TikToks about parking tickets seems to be missing the point
Why does politics feel more parochial than ever at a time when global affairs are king?
Wikipedia is a very odd target for the culture wars
If you want to tackle misogyny on the internet, there are better places to start than a website that can tell you as much about the taxonomy of citrus as it can the death of Socrates
University education has become meaningless – and now it doesn’t even promise a job
We have made education transactional and have forgotten that learning is a good in and of itself
Pressing the Brexit ‘I told you so’ button is tempting for Ireland, but we should hold fire
In Ireland’s interests to work with Andy Burnham as obligingly as possible on the Europe question
From quiet quitting to iced coffee: What is Gen Z’s problem with work?
Might their aversion to work and their self-reported misery be related?
Spare me the fury about Sydney Sweeney. What I see here is a sense of humour
Is my sports betting agency feminist? And has my toaster read Das Kapital?
The Anglo-Irish relationship is best explained by a scene in Mad Men
The high-minded, snobbish claim that those on the right in Britain are above even thinking about Ireland is rather dishonest
Have podcasts like The Rest is History killed the ‘Dad Book’?
Non-fiction doorstoppers on war and politics are reportedly the most challenged segment of the book market
Dolly Parton’s death proves shared cultural reference points act as a social adhesive
Millennials, Gen Z and Boomers are united in their valorisation of the most popular woman in the world
We reached ‘peak-woke’ in 2020-2023. Today that looks ridiculous
Participants subtly try to distance themselves from their 2020-2023 behaviour in shaping groupthink mindset
How Jason Arday’s fabulous life and dramatic fall became a culture war battleground
Arday stands accused of being a charlatan, fabulist, plagiarist – allegations he denies. For Cambridge, it’s all a huge embarrassment
Ireland could look like paradise to England’s heat refugees
We are used to climate refugees escaping heat and floods - just not being uncomfortable British pensioners
The Odyssey is so conservative, I am half surprised it wasn’t written by Jacob Rees-Mogg
We have been told that the left’s grasp on the culture is all but total – yet the biggest film of the year is a Christian morality play
Why all the anti-Dublin bias?
Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford are fine, but none is a global city. Why, then, all the anti-Dublin bias?
The hosepipe snitches of suburban Ireland: It’s just not very ‘love thy neighbour’
Every country has its psychic hang-up. Is inter-citizen policing Ireland’s?