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Fintan O'Toole
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Fintan O'Toole
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MRIA. Irish Times columnist, advising ed New York Review of Books, winner European Press Prize, Orwell Prize, Robert Silvers Prize. We Don't Know Ourselves
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irishtimes.com
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    May 23, 2020
    The #DominicCumings scandal is so explosive because it is not abstract. Hundreds of thousands of people sacrificed by not going to funerals or not seeing frightened parents. They will never forget.
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    May 24, 2019
    So Britain's now had the two worst PMs in its history one straight after the other. The chances of a hat trick seem very high.
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Dec 12, 2019
    As a friendly outsider, can I just say that Britain and England are better than Boris Johnson? #GeneralElection2019
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Apr 12, 2020
    The thundering idiocy of presenting Toby Young as an "expert" on a par with an actual Professor of International Public Health is one reason to fear for Britain.
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    May 25, 2018
    Another reason to be cheerful is that Ireland is the first Anglophone country to face the full panoply of Trump/Brexit/Bannon tactics and withstand that onslaught. #repealtheeigth
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Jun 22, 2019
    “He’s lied his way through life, he’s lied his way through politics, he’s a huckster with a degree of charm to which I am immune. As well as being mendacious he’s incompetent.” Notorious Anglophobe, um, Chris Patten on @BorisJohnson
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Dec 4, 2017
    So "take back control" comes down to being controlled by a minority party in Northern Ireland for which no one in Britain can actually vote.
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Feb 2, 2019
    This is the England I love.
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    When Football Was Better
    @FootballInT80s
    Jan 27, 2019
    Brian Clough on Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch in 1989
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    May 24, 2018
    I was just thinking this evening of my mother, a devout Catholic who was not allowed to attend my baptism because she had not been 'churched" and was still "unclean" after giving birth. Time to end this culture of shaming women. #repealthe8th
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Aug 2, 2019
    Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan… via @IrishTimesOpEd
    Boris Johnson: his Brexit campaign statement that the UK sends “£350 million a week to the EU” is the subject of a prospective court case. Photograph: Steve Back/Getty Images
    Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how
    From irishtimes.com
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Apr 11, 2020
    Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism | Fintan O'Toole
    theguardian.com
    Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism | Fintan O'Toole
    This virus does not respect Johnson’s delusions of national character, says Fintan O’Toole, columnist with the Irish Times
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Feb 9, 2020
    I had a British radio station on to me earlier: so Varadkar has lost his seat! The idea that first past the post is not our system does not compute.
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Jan 26, 2019
    It is especially delightful for a Paddy to be decried by as an aristocratic elitist by an outfit funded by the US multi-billionaire oligarch Koch brothers. Might this act not be wearing a bit thin?
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    Jan 24, 2019
    Fintan O’Toole has become the most sneering member of the Remainer aristocracy. His scorn for the British masses exposes the nasty elitism that underpins the pro-EU brigade, says Michael Fitzpatrick spiked-online.com/2019/01/24/fin…
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    Fintan O'Toole
    @fotoole
    Feb 19, 2020
    The UK is making it clear it doesn't want construction workers from the EU. Ireland should welcome them with open arms. We need builders.