The #DominicCumings scandal is so explosive because it is not abstract. Hundreds of thousands of people sacrificed by not going to funerals or not seeing frightened parents. They will never forget.
Fintan O'Toole
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Fintan O'Toole
@fotoole
MRIA. Irish Times columnist, advising ed New York Review of Books, winner European Press Prize, Orwell Prize, Robert Silvers Prize. We Don't Know Ourselves
- So Britain's now had the two worst PMs in its history one straight after the other. The chances of a hat trick seem very high.
- As a friendly outsider, can I just say that Britain and England are better than Boris Johnson? #GeneralElection2019
- The thundering idiocy of presenting Toby Young as an "expert" on a par with an actual Professor of International Public Health is one reason to fear for Britain.
- Another reason to be cheerful is that Ireland is the first Anglophone country to face the full panoply of Trump/Brexit/Bannon tactics and withstand that onslaught. #repealtheeigth
- “He’s lied his way through life, he’s lied his way through politics, he’s a huckster with a degree of charm to which I am immune. As well as being mendacious he’s incompetent.” Notorious Anglophobe, um, Chris Patten on @BorisJohnson
- So "take back control" comes down to being controlled by a minority party in Northern Ireland for which no one in Britain can actually vote.
- This is the England I love.Brian Clough on Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch in 1989
00:00 - I was just thinking this evening of my mother, a devout Catholic who was not allowed to attend my baptism because she had not been 'churched" and was still "unclean" after giving birth. Time to end this culture of shaming women. #repealthe8th
- Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan… via @IrishTimesOpEd
- Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism | Fintan O'Toole
- I had a British radio station on to me earlier: so Varadkar has lost his seat! The idea that first past the post is not our system does not compute.
- It is especially delightful for a Paddy to be decried by as an aristocratic elitist by an outfit funded by the US multi-billionaire oligarch Koch brothers. Might this act not be wearing a bit thin?Fintan O’Toole has become the most sneering member of the Remainer aristocracy. His scorn for the British masses exposes the nasty elitism that underpins the pro-EU brigade, says Michael Fitzpatrick spiked-online.com/2019/01/24/fin…
- The UK is making it clear it doesn't want construction workers from the EU. Ireland should welcome them with open arms. We need builders.
