Thanks to yesterday’s Court ruling, “live life as you wish but don’t take the piss” is now the law of the land in Britain.
We don’t trust them, but we think they’re essential all the same.
It’s about changing an entire culture, not just a few knobs here and there.
To talk about right wing extremist violence is to construct an alternative reality to the one we actually inhabit.
Ever try, ever fail. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Leo’s new career? Roy Keane, but for politics.
I’ll tell you right now, that if they hold that election, no populist is going to win it. It would be much worse than that.
It fails every standard of journalism, from objective fact-seeking to any effort at fact-verification, to avoiding weaving political narratives through your work.
Don’t assume you are immune to magical thinking.
Sums up the country, really.
With fears of a Trump-induced recession and global instability, the Irish voter appears to be very much in a “don’t rock the boat” mood.
Just to elaborate on Fatima’s post below, in fairness: Most Irish law and jurisprudence operates on precedents and rulings from the superior courts when it comes to sentencing. This is never more true than in the area of “mitigation”. So for example, in child porn (or child abuse imagery, to use the proper term, cases) […]