It’s all about The Narrative – you know, the version of a story carefully spun to suit somebody’s agenda, gleefully swallowed by the unthinking and enhanced by a trip to Outrage Factory.  And so it was with the symphysiotomy controversy. For the last few years this child birth intervention was seen as ‘barbaric’, ‘torture’ and…

After the recent political earthquake and the ongoing aftershocks it’s a relief to get back to some fictional drama.  The Missing (BBC One Wednesday nights) is the second season of this mystery series about people going missing in the most criminal of ways.   The plot is complex and there’s lots of time shifting between…

On his Today With Seán O’Rourke show (RTÉ Radio 1) Wednesday morning of last week the presenter described it as a ‘political earthquake’, and words like ‘extraordinary’ and ‘revolution’ were scattered about liberally.  A restless sleep Tuesday night of last week saw me checking intermittently on developments in the US election so I could gradually…