The problem with rent control isn’t that it’s not well-intentioned, it’s that like a child demanding candy for dinner the second order effects are repeatedly shown to be terrible, but the child is unable to understand this.

Most of the developed world is living under radical genocidal Boomer tyranny whose only object is looting the commons and their own children and grandchildren until they gracelessly expire in the next 20-30 years. They explicitly do not care what happens after that, they say it.

RTE and Virgin Media will be even more unwatchable than usual next week as they subject us to "Paul Murphy of Arabia, the mini series".

"If good people don't look at difficult issues, then bad people will." That applies to so much of the failure of contemporary civil governance and media on a vast number of issues.

Kathleen Funchion was born in Kilkenny and grew up in Ireland in the 90s. The biggest national trauma Ireland encountered during that time was having to host the Eurovision three years in a row.

"Genius here forgot to put petrol in the car." Um honey, you're the one driving.

We can't blame Simon Harris for turning Fine Gael into another Sinn Fein. He's just continuing a process that Varadkar started.

So, after months of relentless lobbying at the long-term cost of our political capital within the EU, Ireland has managed to add, um, Malta, to its anti-Israel coalition.

Peter Thiel on why 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist: “When one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time… and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.”

I’m a child of the 90s, who thought Jarvis Cocker was magnificent proof you could be clever and geeky and a huge success. So I am biased. But obviously Pulp should be the headliners at Glastonbury.

I can’t take it, I’m actually struggling. At my heart I am a moderate progressive social democrat. But the popularity of tankie Third Worldist Maoism in leftist circles is so profoundly alienating and pushing me more conservative. Here we have the main act at Glastonbury -

Genius here forgot that his visa could be barred.

The average European country has almost 100 per capita than Britain. In fact, among comparable European countries only Ireland has fewer homes per capita than the UK.

When you discover that two celebrities are related, in a very micro way the universe seems to make more sense.

‘The Irish government has been even worse than their anti-Semitic citizens.’ ‘“What’s wrong with Ireland?” [Irish people in the US] are asked.’

If you're still in crypto today, congrats. It wasn't luck that brought you here. It was mental illness.

Brexit gave Dublin the opportunity to become a major financial centre within the EU. And we blew it. A chaotic shortage of housing, a risk-averse central bank with PTSD from the financial crisis, and a judiciary-led complete absence of recreation facilities scared them off.

Michael D Higgins in a Peig Sayers costume.

What’s happening right now to the Druze and Christians of Syria is the fate of all the minorities of the Middle East which have no army to protect them. At the start of the 20th century, 1 in 4 people in the Middle East were Christian. Today? Just 1 in 30. A civilizational