“We were in London for 14 years, both our kids were born there and we only came back to Dublin in 2015,” the 45-year-old star added. They were sort of at that age where they were pre-teens and had very posh English accents and I wasn't appreciating that too much! So we decided to come back.” The actor stated, “We wanted the kids to be Irish. Perhaps it’s this that has shortened my patience with the Piers Morgans, AC Graylings and Carole Cadwalladrs of the world, using Twitter to bellow and bloviate and refight old political battles.Cillian Murphy revealed he moved back to Ireland with family because his kids had developed 'posh English accents' in a recent interview.ĭuring an interview with Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast, the Peaky Blinders actor said he and wife Yvonne McGuinness wanted their kids to be Irish so they decided to leave London after spending more than a decade there. Indeed, I have been specifically advised to minimise any chance of exposure as best I can. This puts me in a higher-risk category for coronavirus than I am entirely comfortable with. I am still recovering from a bout of pneumonia: take too deep a breath, or turn over in my sleep, and my chest will let me know it. Even before ministers accelerated the imposition of harsher measures, in response to the latest data, you could find plenty of epidemiologists and medical professionals expressing legitimate anxieties about their strategy.įor me, as for so many of us, this is the most important and most personal of debates. This is not, of course, to say that we should simply swallow whatever policy medicine we are given by the government. Indeed, this is surely the issue of issues on which a Prime Minister does not want to be accused of overruling the experts. The chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser were not simply wheeled out as press conference window dressing. Whatever your view on whether Britain got its initial strategy right or wrong, there is little doubt that (in the sharpest of contrasts to Donald Trump) Boris Johnson has genuinely been guided by the scientific advice.
#Arm chair expert professional#
But online, you can see the knees itching to jerk, the professional contrarians instinctively trying to develop a counter-intuitive take. To their credit, the news channels are, given the sheer human gravity of the coronavirus crisis, making a concerted attempt to shed more light than heat. The pundit whose stock answer is “Yes, on balance…” or “Actually, it’s a bit more complicated than that…” tends to find him- or herself rapidly removed from producers’ speed-dials, and find it far harder to assemble a loyal tribe of Twitter followers behind them.Īs a result, the debates we are having aren’t just between Tory and Labour, Leave and Remain, but between the most cartoonish versions of those positions. The problem is that this same media economy has tended to punish those who are moderate, conventional or equivocal, and reward those who are counterintuitive, contrarian or provocative. We have a whole class of people - myself very much included - whose livelihoods depend on their ability to become at least superficially knowledgeable about the topic of the day. Yet at the same time, this crisis is showing up one of the flaws in our media economy - and especially our social media economy. Gone are the days, if they ever existed, when the government could say “Do this!” and millions of people would line up obediently to obey.
Hence the need for ministers, and their scientific advisers, to explain their reasoning - and be open to challenge. It is, of course, entirely understandable and legitimate for people to have an opinion on something that is literally a matter of life and death.
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