Between McSweeney *and* now McWilliams advising the Brits Ireland really is - entirely deniably - feasting on a splendid banquet of dishes served quite cold.

Fun times ahead for a certain kind of Irish current affairs watcher as we now proceed to try and work out which of Labour's brainworms McWilliams has newly infected them with and which are simply products of their own devising.

I can see the calculation being made by people of non-White British heritage who choose to beat the drum of Britannic ethnonationalism: I'll be getting a bye; I'm one of the good ones.

I'm afraid, dear Children of the Restoration, history has shown you will be devoured by the monster you created.

But pulling out ye olde Fifth Column?

You'd think people like Sue-Ellen—with degrees from Cambridge & the Sorbonne—might be a bit wary of going that far.

You see, the definition of a Fifth Column has always been pretty elastic, & well, your parents are from India, Sue-Ellen, this might come up 🤷

There’s a growing belief in the industry that home computers are redundant, and we should move to dumb terminals with memory and processing and AI assistance existing server-side.

It’s the Enclosure Movement for home computing.

Dipping it in batter and deep frying it