Kevin Myers

2 weeks ago | gript.ie | Kevin Myers

David Lean’s great film, The Bridge over the River Kwai, is about the determination of a straitlaced British Army POW Colonel Nicholson to show the Japanese commandant what the British are made of by building the eponymous bridge on time. At the film’s end, he inadvertently disrupts a British commando attempt to blow the bridge up. Finally realising his folly, he cries: “Oh my God. What have I done?”The film is about 176 minutes long.

3 weeks ago | gript.ie | Kevin Myers

Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.

1 month ago | gript.ie | Kevin Myers

Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.

1 month ago | gript.ie | Kevin Myers

Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.

1 month ago | gript.ie | Kevin Myers

Two secular creeds have cursed western civilisation in the 21st century: one, that humankind could change sexes, two that civilisation could cease to be a net generator of carbon dioxide. A third, lesser but related disorder proclaims that women’s advance in societies was being obstructed by the malignant power of “the patriarchy”. All three are fictions, the most evil being the first.