"How can you detach when Christmassing is shoved so squarely in your face? When the shops and telly have weaponised I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and turned it into reality, so that for a chunk of the year there is no escape from it?"

Suella Braverman would have been comical if she wasn't so dangerous

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Shout out to Paul Lynch, whose fifth novel Prophet Song — on the Booker shortlist — showcases an Irish dystopia set in a future so ordinary and relatable it could be happening the week after next. 

"Halloween is perfect — short, fun, non-prescriptive, and catering to that one aspect strangled by the performative perfectionism of Christmas and weddings — campy weirdness and anti-beauty."

'The dehumanisation of Palestinian civilians is happening in front of our eyes, and those who call it out — voices like Jeremy Corbyn, Miriam Margolyes — are viewed as extremists by the mainstream'

"Turns out organising a funeral remotely is greatly complicated by the fact that nobody has a spare suitcase of cash down the back of the sofa."

"Why? Because for all our céad míle fáilte, for all our international reputation for warm-heartedly putting the kettle on, I didn’t trust Ireland."

Expressing hatred for women remains tolerated and normalised.

You only have to look at those who have come out in Brand’s support to see where he has positioned himself politically