Finn McRedmond

Lesson from the US election is that liberals must realise young men have problems too

An actor’s entire job is to occupy the mind and body of someone else, not to be interesting themselves

We cannot normalise his candidacy, no matter what stunt he pulls

Discrediting his moments of rhetorical or aesthetic flair as the work of nasty impulses ensures the Democrats will never learn from them

Christianity has been around for some time and will weather this particular trend cycle, no matter Russell Brand’s risible public display. And these online Christian gurus will find a new cause celebre

What Aldous Huxley feared has come to pass: we are drowning in a sea of irrelevance

If Keir Starmer wants to be remembered as a prime minister for the United Kingdom, not just England, he needs to address the question of a Border poll

Without the energy and charisma of a storyteller - Boris Johnson, Bertie Ahern - a country has nothing to believe in

The downfall of a newsreader – once beamed into the homes of millions during era-defining events – is also a story about the BBC’s shortcomings

Circus of ritual public humiliation that gripped TV 20 years ago hasn’t gone away - it has moved on to other platforms

Oasis have never received the Taylor Swift treatment over this bungled ticket sale. No charges of money-grabbing or fan-exploitation for the brothers

The factors that pushed Ireland into being a nation of mass emigration have often been tragic but the result is a nation better off for it

Driving this decline in consumption is an unhappy mental state we have so far failed to reckon with

France is a country unlikely to find perfect and cloudless harmony. But perhaps the Games might bandage up some of the worst fault lines for the time being

Chaos and confusion inflicted by such terror provides the conditions for civil unrest. We saw it in Dublin last November

It is incredibly easy for people to detect when they are at a nadir – the trenches of their career or stardom. But it seems a much harder task to identify when you are at your peak

I have been wondering recently why he has no Irish equivalent. It is not Michael D Higgins, not Bono

Media coverage of Jill Biden as the last bulwark against the authoritarian nightmare of Trump is exactly the kind of thing that - rightly - puts voters off

The UK general election’s outcome is all but assured, yet there is a sense that not too much will actually change in the years ahead

Lamentations of onlookers about Broken Britain, total crisis and irreversible damage are hollow when you see what’s happening elsewhere in Europe