Finn McRedmond

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

Football is a good outlet for defanged nationalism but light-hearted spaghetti japes should not be mistaken for signs of unity in a fractured continent

To reduce Nigel Farage’s influence to his legislative heft in the House of Commons seriously underestimates his impact

As Trump and Johnson show us, relatability is a juvenile value in politics, and a hollow aspiration

Things are looking up for Anglo-Irish relations. But Ireland’s diplomatic model has to work just as well with Tories as it does with a well-disposed Labour. Otherwise the country is exposed, reliant on the whims of personality

O’Reilly and Springsteen understand a similar truth about the world - you can’t start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart

Whatever the nature of Bambie’s protest - and of course they are right that Netanyahu’s actions in the Gaza strip are abhorrent and deplorable - it was an inappropriate time, place and medium

The comedian blames “PC crap” and the “extreme left” but spineless sitcom isn’t solely product of the so-called Great Awokening of the 2010s

The movement’s mantra – believe women – was a powerful corrective to a society that was too happy to dismiss their stories. But seven years of hindsight on, we can understand its failings with greater clarity

The difference between snobs and posh people

Food and culture need enthusiasts and tastemakers. Certain types of culture are valuable because they are challenging

Finn McRedmond: We will think of the 2010s and 2020s as the time the industry went mad and insisted that splitting mini flatbread was the apogee of sophisticated dining

It is true she was a very bad prime minister. But it’s also true she was never given a proper try. She was too weird, maybe she didn’t have enough friends, her ideas were too radical

This week was a reminder that our capacity for rational thinking hasn’t evolved all that much. People still look for celestial signs on how to vote