Norway and South Korea both had bootstrap national stories in living memory, by at some point journalists stopped using them in articles.

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A lot of international coverage of Ireland opens with a preamble about how it used to be a poor, conservative country but recently became wealthy and liberal. Given that we now have adults born in 2008, I wonder if it is time to retire this preamble? They don’t use it for Norway or South Korea…

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Makes about as much sense and introducing all stories about Spain as “formerly fascist”

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If elected Minister of Justice, I will order the seizure of phones, laptops and other devices of anyone who attempts to stymie conversations around consent and children’s bodily autonomy.

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I’m going to call specifically so they don’t dismiss my email as not being from a real voter. I want them to hear from a real voter- their voter- and I want them to relearn the difference between bots and humans again. (Always be polite to the person answering, it is worth saying)

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