The whole piece is also just a credentialised millennial version of the old familiar postcolonial cringe- we better be a properly respectable and grown up country! Let’s step up and stop being immature and cringe!
In a healthy media environment, the Taoiseach’s party getting 4% in a Dublin by-election would be a bigger deal. There’s actually more emphasis on Sinn Féin’s slightly disappointing (but much better) performance
As I get older and increasingly over stimulated, I do feel more sympathy for serial non-responders, even though in reality most of them are senior academics triaging you for status
It’s sweltering (by our endearing standards) but I stewed oxtail for 6 hours because I’m a monster
Incredibly depressing article explaining the economic incentives against Russia ending the war t.co/mvg5LtlqdM
Younger daughter threw a giant inflatable unicorn down the stairs causing it to puncture on a cactus near the bottom. Older daughter calls such scenarios TNF! (Totally Normal Family). 🦄 🦄🦄
In this article Sinead O’Sullivan repeatedly uses the misleading phrase ‘a sovereign Europe’. The EU is not ‘sovereign’ over anything, its peoples have never consented to forming a sovereign state and its legitimacy comes only from the consent of its member
