It was April 2008 when I took my first prescription anxiety pill. It helped calm the fear I felt whenever I spotted my ex-boyfriend driving behind me on my way home from work. He was a 260-pound bodybuilder who posed with machine guns on social media. Back when we dated, when he was angry with […]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently promised “the beginning of a new golden age” in the House of Commons. But with these few carefree words he might well be painting a too rosy a picture of a hard no-deal Brexit for everyone. He should take some sage advice from Shakespeare about how he who “the […]

Taxpayers may well question the value they’re getting for the €1.1bn being forked out under the current three-year pay deal between this Government and its workers. In return for this hefty sum funding wage hikes for public servants until the end of 2020, they were promised industrial peace. But it’s not exactly been a no-strike […]

Social occasions are now littered with couples no longer together who are both in the same room. They may have children together. It may have been a great love affair. Or a brief fling. To say it has made life more complex for everyone is an understatement. New partners wonder if a flame is still […]

(Reuters) – Australian wealth manager VGI Partners Ltd (VGI.AX) on Monday said it intends to raise up to A$1 billion ($679 million) for a new Asian-equities focused investment company through an initial public offering. The offer price under the IPO on the Australian Securities Exchange will be A$2.50 per share for the investment company, to […]

To the Editor: Regarding the mass shootings in El Paso, Tex., and Dayton, Ohio (nytimes.com, Aug. 4): We have an epidemic of domestic terrorism, perpetrated largely by young white men motivated by irrational and vague racial fears. These fears have long been legitimized by right-wing media and, especially, the public diatribes of the president. The […]

I never had any earthly interest in owning property. I would quite gladly rent at a reasonable rate for the rest of my life, but in this great little country of ours that is not possible, so as Christy used to sing, it’s time to “Go. Move. Shift”. I am about to leave the city […]

There is currently no way of squaring the Brexit circle. The two sides, the UK and Europe, and divided factions within those sides, have become so entrenched that a crash-out, no-deal Brexit looks the most likely outcome at this stage. The only way to break the logjam may be for a general election to be […]

Let’s don the green jersey for a few minutes and talk about Ireland’s interests. And let’s talk goal congruence, and whose interests coincide with ours. Over the past week, we saw very clearly who the main losers in a no-deal Brexit scenario would be. It would be us, and the UK. Leo Varadkar was accused […]

Some columns spring from inspiration, some from diligent research. And some you’re prodded into writing because of what the other columnists are arguing about. This is the third kind. With the Democratic debates in the spotlight, there has been a lot written on this op-ed page about the Democratic Party’s ideological evolution, its leftward march […]