Colbert was the final man executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May, 1916

The mindless concrete that corrodes the fabric of the city

“We’re in either a collapse or a massive transformation culturally in the West,” Paul Kingsnorth tells me cheerfully from his home study in Ireland. “We’re very much at the end of the last dregs of Christendom, which have been dragged out for a long time…

Absent.

Smartphone culture.

The move has brought talks of a so-called “freedom day” to a screeching halt.