As a straight man, I love Dublin Pride as a spectacle above all. A festival of bright colour, an astoundingly optimistic and positive oasis in a year where all news seems to be bad. Today was great fun, and took place in sweltering, vicious sun. These photos, all taken with the camera on the iPhone [...]

I never thought I’d say this, but I feel very sorry for Brown right now. Yes he’s a hoon, yes he’s a moron, yes he’s a dreadful Prime Minister, but imagine how that laughter would have felt. In our desire for red meat, we run something of a risk of dehumanising this increasingly frail, increasingly [...]