Graeme Keyes News Today

Peter Vandermeersch, the self-confessed ‘hard and direct’ chief executive of Mediahuis Ireland, is bullish about the strategy of moving the company’s titles into a digital-only future

I don't know how things are working in Ireland, but the couple in this Graeme Keyes cartoon would have to die quickly if they were Americans. The soaring prices of housing have, indeed, barred many people from homeownership, though much of it is the massive chunk of change required for a down payment. But I'd…

I realize it’s a case of “damning with faint praise,” but Mike Luckovich (AJC) offers the best of a bunch of happy cartoons praising the rollout of the Covid vaccine, which is a demonstration of Tolstoy’s opening of Anna Karenina that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” That’s Tolstoy’s explanation for why nobody writes novels about happy families, or, at least, nobody writes very good novels about them. They write nice novels about th...