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Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?

Beautiful women have been driving the world insane as long as has been recorded. The semi-mythical Helen of Troy is the most obvious evidence of this time-worn tradition. Cleopatra was a main character in that great hinge point of history: the collapse of the Roman republic and the creation of the Roman emperor. Anne Boleyn and Mary Antoinette – by today’s standards perhaps not as “hot” as Sweeney – scrambled Henry VIII’s faculties, redirecting the House of Tudor twice.

it is genuinely a permanent stain on Irish journalism that Sarah Carey has been allowed to retain her position despite engaging in cartoonish abuse of confidentiality to interfere in a public inquiry for the political benefit of the party she supported

Ah come on - Finn McRedmonds piece today eulogising the death of ‘woke 1.0’ (whatever that is/was) which apparently saw ‘university staff lose their jobs for “right-wing” views’! After a week when a black academic was driven suic*de by a racist mob this is beyond ridiculous and horribly stupid.

Fair play to my Dad for being the only person to successfully rank Pope’s in chronological order at the local pub quiz tonight. His time studying to be a priest well spent.

Bild